title: Developmental Patterning: Putting the Squeeze on Mis-specified Cells.
abstract: Widely implicated in human disease, abnormal cellular cysts reflect dramatic defects in the maintenance of epithelial integrity. A new study reports that epithelial cysts may arise as a surprisingly general consequence of clonal defects in the specification of cell identity.
authors.affiliation: Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
authors.forename: Yu-Ichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.affiliation: Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. Electronic address: MG2@stowers.org.
authors.forename: Matthew C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D019521:Body Patterning; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006801:Humans