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Developmental defects in trisomy 21 and mouse models.
TheScientificWorldJournal - 19 Sept 2006
Delabar Jean Maurice, Aflalo-Rattenbac Revital, Créau Nicole
Abstract excerpt
Aneuploidies have diverse phenotypic consequences, ranging from mental retardation and developmental abnormalities to susceptibility to common phenotypes and various neoplasms. This review focuses on the developmental defects of murine models of a prototype human aneuploidy: trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, DS, T21). Murine models are clearly the best tool for dissecting the phenotypic consequences of imbalances that...
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