2015 Research Annual Report

Plastic Surgery

Whole-Genome Sequencing Confirms Avian Model of Human Disease

For more than 60 years, developmental biologists have studied a naturally occurring avian mutant called talpid² because of its interesting phenotypes, including cleft lip/palate, oral dysmorphologies and limb defects. However, the talpid² has been of limited utility because researchers did not know what caused the mutation – until now.