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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 28.
Published in final edited form as: Genesis. 2011 Apr 1;49(4):190–199. doi: 10.1002/dvg.20722

Table 3. FaceBase Projects, Principle Investigators and Resources.

Projects listed here represent individual component projects of the FaceBase Consortium that will generate mouse resources and/or data. More detailed descriptions of these and other FaceBase projects are available at www.facebase.org.

Project Title PI(s) Resource
Genetic Determinants of
Orofacial Shape and
Relationship to Cleft
Lip/Palate		 Richard Spritz, Morphometrics, face
shape QTL
Research on Functional
Genomics, Image
Analysis and Rescue of
Cleft Palate		 Yang Chai
Scott Fraser
Marianne Bronner-
Fraser
Joseph Hacia		 Basic Research, Image
data
Genome-Wide Atlas of
Craniofacial
Transcriptional
Enhancers		 Axel Visel Enhancer sequence map
Functional Analysis of
Neural Crest and Palate:
Imaging Craniofacial
Development		 Scott Fraser
Marianne Bronner-
Fraser
Yang Chai		 Image Data and
Technology
Global Gene Expression Steve Potter Gene Expression Data
Atlas of Craniofacial Bruce Arronow
Development Paul Trainor
Identification of
miRNAs Involved in
Midfacial Development
and Clefting		 David Clouthier, Kristin
Artinger and John
Postlethwait		 miRNA Expression
Data
Genetic Tools and
Resources for Orofacial
Clefting Research		 Leah Rae Donahue,
Steve Murray		 Animal models and Cre
tool strains