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Development ePress online publication date 3 Oct 2007
doi: 10.1242/dev.004325

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Mutations in the BMP pathway in mice support the existence of two molecular classes of holoprosencephaly


Marie Fernandes, Grigoriy Gutin, Heather Alcorn, Susan K. McConnell, and Jean M. Hébert*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: jhebert{at}aecom.yu.edu)

Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a devastating forebrain abnormality with a range of morphological defects characterized by loss of midline tissue. In the telencephalon, the embryonic precursor of the cerebral hemispheres, specialized cell types form a midline that separates the hemispheres. In the present study, deletion of the BMP receptor genes, Bmpr1b and Bmpr1a, in the mouse telencephalon results in a loss of all dorsal midline cell types without affecting the specification of cortical and ventral precursors. In the holoprosencephalic Shh-/- mutant, by contrast, ventral patterning is disrupted, whereas the dorsal midline initially forms. This suggests that two separate developmental mechanisms can underlie the ontogeny of HPE. The Bmpr1a;Bmpr1b mutant provides a model for a subclass of HPE in humans: midline inter-hemispheric HPE.


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