Ciliopathies

Friedhelm Hildebrandt(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Thomas Benzing(Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging Associated Diseases), Nicholas Katsanis(Duke Medical Center)
New England Journal of Medicine
April 20, 2011
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Abstract

A ciliopathy is a disease in which a hairlike cellular organelle called the cilium is dysfunctional. Most proteins altered in these single-gene disorders function at the level of the cilium–centrosome complex. This review considers the role of the cilium in disease.


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