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. 1995 Sep 12;92(19):8566–8573. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.19.8566

The new dysmorphology: application of insights from basic developmental biology to the understanding of human birth defects.

C J Epstein 1
PMCID: PMC41007  PMID: 7567976

Abstract

Information obtained from studies of developmental and cellular processes in lower organisms is beginning to make significant contributions to the understanding of the pathogenesis of human birth defects, and it is now becoming possible to treat birth defects as inborn errors of development. Mutations in genes for transcription factors, receptors, cell adhesion molecules, intercellular junctions, molecules involved in signal transduction, growth factors, structural proteins, enzymes, and transporters have been identified in genetically caused human malformations and dysplasias. The identification of these mutations and the analysis of their developmental effects have been greatly facilitated by the existence of natural or engineered models in the mouse and even of related mutations in Drosophila, and in some instances a remarkable conservation of function in development has been observed, even between widely separated species.

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