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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD): A genetic disorder of motile cilia
4 Jul 2019
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetic disorder of motile cilia. Clinical features include chronic oto-sino-pulmonary disease, laterality defects, and male fertility reflecting impaired function of respiratory cilia in the upper and lower respiratory tracts, nodal cilia in the embryonic node and sperm tails, respectively. Recent studies have identified over 40 PCD-associated genes that encode proteins...
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