Penn researchers find key to Sonic hedgehog control of brain development

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 10:08 in Biology & Nature

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have discovered how the expression of the Sonic hedgehog gene is regulated during brain development and how mutations that alter this process cause brain malformations. The results appear online this month in Nature Genetics.

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