What you can learn from one gene: GLI3

J Med Genet. 2006 Jun;43(6):465-9. doi: 10.1136/jmg.2004.029181.

Abstract

The study of patients with rare multiple congenital anomaly syndromes can provide illuminating insights into normal development and the pathogenesis of congenital anomalies. The GLI3 gene is a particularly good example as it illuminates the phenomena of pleiotropy, phenocopies, syndrome families, and evolutionary conservation of pathogenesis, and raises questions about how diagnoses are conceptualised. These topics are reviewed in turn, in the context of the clinical and biological data derived from patients with mutations in GLI3 and experimental work in model systems.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnosis*
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics*
  • Animals
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Humans
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors / genetics*
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors / physiology
  • Models, Animal
  • Mutation
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / genetics*
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / physiology
  • Phenotype
  • Polydactyly / diagnosis
  • Polydactyly / genetics
  • Polydactyly / pathology
  • Syndrome
  • Zinc Finger Protein Gli3

Substances

  • GLI3 protein, human
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Zinc Finger Protein Gli3