Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Protein Involved in DNA Replication Linked to Dwarfism



Gene mutations in some patients with Meier-Gorlin syndrome (MGS) are thought to give rise to dwarfism, small brain size, states study. Although only 53 cases of Meier-Gorlin syndrome have been reported in the medical literature since the first patient was described in 1959, it is a malady whose mechanisms are bringing to light new functions for some of the cellular processes common to all life. Pathology related to MGS is traced in the new research to one ...

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