Evolutionary Keys To Common Birth Disorders Discovered

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 09:36 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have revealed that duplication and diversification of protein regions ("modules") within ancient master control genes is key to the understanding of certain birth disorders. Tracing the history of these changes within the proteins coded by the Msx gene family over the past 600 million years has also provided additional evidence for the ancient origin of the human mouth.

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