Pax6 Dosage Requirements in Iris and Ciliary Body Differentiation.

Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Pax6 is a highly conserved transcription factor that controls the morphogenesis of various organs. Changes in Pax6 dosage have been shown to affect the formation of multiple tissues. PAX6 haploinsufficiency leads to aniridia, a pan-ocular disease primarily characterized by iris hypoplasia. Herein, we employ a modular system that includes null and overexpressed conditional alleles of Pax6. The use of the Tyrp2-Cre line, active in iris and ciliary body (CB) primordium, enabled us to investigate the effect of varying dosages of Pax6 on the development of these... [read full story]                    

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