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Allele-specific silencing of EEC p63 mutant R304W restores p63 transcriptional activity.
Cell death & disease - 19 May 2016
Novelli F, Lena A M, Panatta E, Nasser W, Shalom-Feuerstein R, Candi E, Melino G
Abstract excerpt
EEC (ectrodactily-ectodermal dysplasia and cleft lip/palate) syndrome is a rare genetic disease, autosomal dominant inherited. It is part of the ectodermal dysplasia disorders caused by heterozygous mutations in TP63 gene. EEC patients present limb malformations, orofacial clefting, skin and skin's appendages defects, ocular abnormalities. The transcription factor p63, encoded by TP63, is a master gene for the...
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