Shaping the sound of voice.
The proper development of the vocal cords requires embryos to contain a certain number of progenitor cells, and mutations that lead to an overflow of cells can cause malformations of the voice box.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
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D000818:Animals; D002923:Cilia; D053823:Hedgehog Proteins; D007830:Larynx; D014827:Vocal Cords; D014831:Voice
D053823:Hedgehog Proteins
CPLANE; Fuz; cilia; ciliopathy; developmental biology; larynx; mouse; neural crest; stem cells