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Mechanisms and pathways of growth failure in primordial dwarfism.
Genes & development - 1 Oct 2011
Klingseisen Anna, Jackson Andrew P
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The greatest difference between species is size; however, the developmental mechanisms determining organism growth remain poorly understood. Primordial dwarfism is a group of human single-gene disorders with extreme global growth failure (which includes Seckel syndrome, microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism I [MOPD] types I and II, and Meier-Gorlin syndrome). Ten genes have now been identified for...
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