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Molecular Characterization of Down Syndrome Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals a Role for RUNX1 in Neural Differentiation.
Stem cell reports - 11 Oct 2016
Halevy Tomer, Biancotti Juan-Carlos, Yanuka Ofra, Golan-Lev Tamar, Benvenisty Nissim
Abstract excerpt
Down syndrome (DS) is the leading genetic cause of mental retardation and is caused by a third copy of human chromosome 21. The different pathologies of DS involve many tissues with a distinct array of neural phenotypes. Here we characterize embryonic stem cell lines with DS (DS-ESCs), and focus on the neural aspects of the disease. Our results show that neural progenitor cells (NPCs) differentiated from five...
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