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Disruption of autoregulatory feedback by a mutation in a remote, ultraconserved PAX6 enhancer causes aniridia.
American journal of human genetics - 5 Dec 2013
Bhatia Shipra, Bengani Hemant, Fish Margaret, Brown Alison, Divizia Maria Teresa, de Marco Riccardo, Damante Guiseppe, Grainger Robert, van Heyningen Veronica, Kleinjan Dirk A
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The strictly regulated expression of most pleiotropic developmental control genes is critically dependent on the activity of long-range cis-regulatory elements. This was revealed by the identification of individuals with a genetic condition lacking coding-region mutations in the gene commonly ass...
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