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Gene for eye placement comes into focus.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Sept 2024
Kumar Justin P
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila compound eye is an attractive system for unraveling how tissues are specified and patterned. Puli et al. recently demonstrated that eye size and spacing are controlled by the defective proventriculus (dve) gene. This impacts our understanding of hypertelorism, a disorder associated with mutations in special AT-rich binding protein 1 (SATB1), the human ortholog of Dve.
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