Genetics of human left-right axis malformations.

doi:10.1006/scdb.1997.0187

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Genetics of human left-right axis malformations.

Seminars in cell & developmental biology - 1 Feb 1998

Kosaki K, Casey B

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Like all vertebrates, humans establish anatomic left-right asymmetry during embryogenesis. Variation from this normal arrangement (situs solitus) results in heterotaxy, expressed either as randomization (situs ambiguus) or complete reversal (situs inversus) of normal organ position. Familial hete...

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Body Patterning
Congenital Abnormalities
Forecasting
Humans
Molecular Biology
Phenotype
Syndrome
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