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GTF2IRD1 in craniofacial development of humans and mice
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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:09 authored by May Tassabehji, Peter Hammond, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Pamela Thompson, Snorri S Thorgeirsson, Marian E Durkin, Nicholas C Popescu, Timothy Hutton, Kay Metcalfe, Agnes Rucka, Helen Stewart, Andrew P Read, Mark Maconochie, Dian DonnaiCraniofacial abnormalities account for about one-third of all human congenital defects, but our understanding of the genetic mechanisms governing craniofacial development is incomplete. We show that GTF2IRD1 is a genetic determinant of mammalian craniofacial and cognitive development, and we implicate another member of the TFII-I transcription factor family, GTF2I, in both aspects. Gtf2ird1-null mice exhibit phenotypic abnormalities reminiscent of the human microdeletion disorder Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS); craniofacial imaging reveals abnormalities in both skull and jaws that may arise through misregulation of goosecoid, a downstream target of Gtf2ird1. In humans, a rare WBS individual with an atypical deletion, including GTF2IRD1, shows facial dysmorphism and cognitive deficits that differ from those of classic WBS cases. We propose a mechanism of cumulative dosage effects of duplicated and diverged genes applicable to other human chromosomal disorders
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ScienceISSN
0036-8075Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of ScienceExternal DOI
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5751Volume
310Page range
1184-1187Department affiliated with
- Neuroscience Publications
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On this collaboration, my contribution was to generate the transgenic mice, carry out some of the analyses, as well as contributing towards to the experimental design, in preparing the manuscript with the lead author and responding to review.Full text available
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