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News, Reviews, and Articles on Alagille Syndrome
Local briefs Nov 12, 2008
Brooklyn, the daughter of Joe and Desiree Espinoza, suffered from Alagille syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the liver, heart and other body systems. She underwent open heart surgery at the age of 1 and a year later received a liver transplant. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Grant Supports Study of Abnormal Ring-Shaped Chromosomes Oct 10, 2007
Dr. Spinner, the director of the Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory at Children's Hospital, previously discovered genes responsible for the genetic disease Alagille syndrome, which affects multiple organs. Children's Hospital has one of the world's leading programs for the diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases in children. (PR Newswire)
NOTCHing Up Heart Development Feb 6, 2007
This study therefore identifies cells of the neural crest lineage as the cells in which Notch signaling is important for cardiovascular development in mice and might provide a cellular mechanism for the cardiovascular defects observed in humans with the hereditary disorder Alagille syndrome, which has been linked to mutations in genes encoding proteins that are part of the Notch signaling cascade. In an accompanying commentary, Leonard Anderson and Gary Gibbons from the Morehouse School of... (Science Daily)
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