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Comparable long term retention of apical spiral sensory neurons was described for the deaf white cat [ 25 ] and may also be the case in humans with congenital deafness.
In that study, two adults presented with renal calculi and nephrocalcinosis [ 3 ] . Lactase deficiency may give rise to metabolic bone disease [ 31 ] . More pertinently, Saarela et al described 7 of 10 infants with congenital lactase deficiency who had hypercalcemia at the time of initial presentation [ 4 ] . Five of these 7 infants had medullary nephrocalcinosis.
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].
Widespread use of the drug thalidomide during the 1950s led to an epidemic of phocomelia, an absence or deformity of limbs and other congenital defects in children exposed in utero to the drug [72].
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.
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