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Developmental defects

• Original article: Exome sequencing identifies DYNC2H1 mutations as a common cause of asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy (Jeune syndrome) without major polydactyly, renal or retinal involvement (1 March, 2013)

  Miriam Schmidts, Heleen H Arts, Ernie M H F Bongers, Zhimin Yap, Machteld M Oud, Dinu Antony, Lonneke Duijkers, Richard D Emes, Jim Stalker, Jan-Bart L Yntema, Vincent Plagnol, Alexander Hoischen, Christian Gilissen, Elisabeth Forsythe, Ekkehart Lausch, Joris A Veltman, Nel Roeleveld, Andrea Superti-Furga, Anna Kutkowska-Kazmierczak, Erik-Jan Kamsteeg, Nursel Elçioğlu, Merel C van Maarle, Luitgard M Graul-Neumann, Koenraad Devriendt, Sarah F Smithson, Diana Wellesley, Nienke E Verbeek, Raoul C M Hennekam, Hulya Kayserili, Peter J Scambler, Philip L Beales, Nine VAM Knoers, Ronald Roepman, Hannah M Mitchison
• Original article: Exome sequencing identifies mutations in the gene TTC7A in French-Canadian cases with hereditary multiple intestinal atresia (19 February, 2013)

  Mark E Samuels, Jacek Majewski, Najmeh Alirezaie, Isabel Fernandez, Ferran Casals, Natalie Patey, Hélène Decaluwe, Isabelle Gosselin, Elie Haddad, Alan Hodgkinson, Youssef Idaghdour, Valerie Marchand, Jacques L Michaud, Marc-André Rodrigue, Sylvie Desjardins, Stéphane Dubois, Francoise Le Deist, Philip Awadalla, Vincent Raymond, Bruno Maranda
• Original article: ARHGDIA: a novel gene implicated in nephrotic syndrome (22 February, 2013)

  Indra Rani Gupta, Cindy Baldwin, David Auguste, Kevin C H Ha, Jasmine El Andalousi, Somayyeh Fahiminiya, Martin Bitzan, Chantal Bernard, Mohammad Reza Akbari, Steven A Narod, David S Rosenblatt, Jacek Majewski, Tomoko Takano