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Concise review: new paradigms for Down syndrome research using induced pluripotent stem cells: tackling complex human genetic disease.
Stem cells translational medicine - 1 Mar 2013
Briggs James A, Mason Elizabeth A, Ovchinnikov Dmitry A, Wells Christine A, Wolvetang Ernst J
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Down syndrome (DS) is a complex developmental disorder with diverse pathologies that affect multiple tissues and organ systems. Clear mechanistic description of how trisomy of chromosome 21 gives rise to most DS pathologies is currently lacking and is limited to a few examples of dosage-sensitive trisomic genes with large phenotypic effects. The recent advent of cellular reprogramming technology offers a...
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