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Interestingly, jagged-1 is important for epithelial-mesenchymal cell interaction in development [ 50], and mutations in the jagged gene lead to Alagille syndrome, a congenital connective tissue disorder whose hallmarks include craniofacial and vertebral deformities [ 51].
It may be the result of injury, of disease, or of congenital defect.
They jubilantly announced that the baby, born in May, shows no sign of the congenital condition.
These disorders were traditionally believed to reflect primary structural extraocular muscle (EOM) anomalies and have been referred to as 'congenital fibrosis syndromes' [ 1 ] . Neuropathology studies of DS [ 2 3 ] and one form of CFEOM (CFEOM1) [ 4 ] , and the identification of ARIX as the gene mutated in a second form of CFEOM (CFEOM2) [ 5 ] , however, support our hypothesis that CFEOM results from maldevelopment of the oculomotor (nIII) and/or trochlear (nIV) nuclei and DS results from maldevelopment of the abducens (nVI) nucleus.
First, we established criteria for a "classic CFEOM individual" as an individual with congenital nonprogressive bilateral ophthalmoplegia and ptosis, an infraducted primary position of each eye with the inability to raise either eye above the midline, and forced duction testing positive for restriction, if testing was performed.