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A Reverse Genetic Approach to Test Functional Redundancy During Embryogenesis
Published on: August 12, 2010
Abstract:
An individual affected with severe bone reductions of the upper limbs, apparently due to an autosomal recessive gene, had eight normal children and then a child with absence of the right thumb and the correspondent metacarpal. This is supposed to be the result of a mild expression of the postulated gene in heterozygous state.
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