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Polydactyly: how many disorders and how many genes? 2010 update.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 May 2011
Biesecker Leslie G
Abstract excerpt
Limb development is clinically and biologically important. Polydactyly is common and caused by aberrant anterior-posterior patterning. Human disorders that include polydactyly are diverse. To facilitate an understanding of the biology of limb development, cataloging the genes that are mutated in patients with polydactyly would be useful. In 2002, I characterized human phenotypes that included polydactyly....
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