Genomics reveals a simple cause for newborns’ complex illness

Some 3% of babies are born with missing or unusually shaped body parts. The origins of most such disabilities are mysterious, but researchers have now traced a congenital syndrome that causes changes in multiple organs to a deficiency in a single protein¹.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02641-0

Subjects

• Genomics