New insight into birth defect characterised by digit duplication and fusion

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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