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Impact of retinoic acid exposure on midfacial shape variation and manifestation of holoprosencephaly in Twsg1 mutant mice.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 Feb 2015
Billington Charles J, Schmidt Brian, Marcucio Ralph S, Hallgrimsson Benedikt, Gopalakrishnan Rajaram, Petryk Anna
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Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a developmental anomaly characterized by inadequate or absent midline division of the embryonic forebrain and midline facial defects. It is believed that interactions between genes and the environment play a role in the widely variable penetrance and expressivity of HPE, although direct investigation of such effects has been limited. The goal of this study was to examine whether mice...
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