id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4bl45cqyjjctrbsygtz2kz2v44 Victor L. Ruiz-Perez Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and Weyers acrodental dysostosis are caused by cilia-mediated diminished response to hedgehog ligands 2009.0 11 .pdf application/pdf 7870 891 67 Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and Weyers acrodental dysostosis are caused by cilia-mediated diminished response to hedgehog ligands Ellis –van Creveld syndrome (EvC; OMIM 225500) is a recessive disorder comprising chondrodysplasia, polydactyly, nail dysplasia, orofacial abnormalities and, in a proportion of patients, cardiovascular malformations. have been identified in patients with Weyers acrodental dysostosis, which are clustered in the last coding exon of bodies of primary cilia and analysis of an Ellis –van Creveld mouse model, which includes the limb shortening and tooth abnormalities of EvC patients, has demonstrated Hedgehog signaling defects in the absence of Evc. The loss We conclude that the phenotypic abnormalities in EvC and Weyers syndrome result � 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. KEY WORDS: Ellis –van Creveld syndrome; Weyers acrodental dysostosis; EVC; EVC2; hedgehog identified in EvC patients shortly thereafter [Ruiz-Perez et al., 2003; Galdzicka with the mutations found in each exon in Ellis– van Creveld patients shown above. EVC2 EXON22 MUTATIONS Mutations Identified in EVC2 in Weyers Patients ./cache/work_4bl45cqyjjctrbsygtz2kz2v44.pdf ./txt/work_4bl45cqyjjctrbsygtz2kz2v44.txt