Holoprosencephaly: Signaling interactions between the brain and the face, the environment and the genes, and the phenotypic variability in animal models and humans

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-32

  Petryk, Anna ^a   Graf, Daniel ^b   Marcucio, Ralph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN NODAL; RETINOID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOREBRAIN; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84915746678     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.161     Document Type: Review

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