New insight into birth defect characterised by digit duplication and fusion
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 08:42
in Biology & Nature
Birth defects characterised by malformation of the limbs are relatively common. New insight into one form of the birth defect synpolydactyly, where individuals have 1 or more digit (finger or toe) duplicated and 2 or more digits fused together, has now been provided by Stefan Mundlos and colleagues, at Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany, who studied a mouse model of the condition...
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