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Understanding the basis of auriculocondylar syndrome: Insights from human, mouse and zebrafish genetic studies
4 Oct 2013
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Among human birth defect syndromes, malformations affecting the face are perhaps the most striking due to cultural and psychological expectations of facial shape. One such syndrome is auriculocondylar syndrome (ACS), in which patients present with defects in ear and mandible development. Affected structures arise from cranial neural crest cells, a population of cells in the embryo that reside in the pharyngeal...
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