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Analysis of FOXD3 sequence variation in human ocular disease.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2012
Kloss Bethany A Volkmann, Reis Linda M, Brémond-Gignac Dominique, Glaser Tom, Semina Elena V
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PURPOSE: The migratory neural crest cell population makes a significant contribution to the anterior segment structures of the eye. Consequently, several anterior segment dysgenesis phenotypes are associated with mutations in genes expressed during neural crest development. The forkhead box D3 (FOXD3) gene encodes a forkhead transcription factor that plays an important role in neural crest specification in...
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