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TLE6 mutation causes the earliest known human embryonic lethality.
Genome biology - 5 Nov 2015
Alazami Anas M, Awad Salma M, Coskun Serdar, Al-Hassan Saad, Hijazi Hadia, Abdulwahab Firdous M, Poizat Coralie, Alkuraya Fowzan S
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BACKGROUND: Embryonic lethality is a recognized phenotypic expression of individual gene mutations in model organisms. However, identifying embryonic lethal genes in humans is challenging, especially when the phenotype is manifested at the preimplantation stage. RESULTS: In an ongoing effort to exploit the highly consanguineous nature of the Saudi population to catalog recessively acting embryonic lethal genes in...
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