Cilia, Alström syndrome--molecular mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives.

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Over the past ten years, several studies demonstrated the connections between cilia, basal bodies and human diseases with a wide phenotypic spectrum, including randomization of body symmetry, obesity, cystic kidney diseases and retinal degeneration. Alström syndrome (OMIM 203800) first described in 1959, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in a novel gene of unknown function, ALMS1, located...

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