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Nature Genetics 39, 145 - 146 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng0207-145

Micromanaging the response to Hedgehog

Philip Ingham1

  1. Philip Ingham is at the Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield, UK, and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore. e-mail: P.W.Ingham@sheffield.ac.uk


Members of the Hedgehog family of secreted proteins are central to animal development, with different levels of Hedgehog signaling activity specifying distinct cellular identities. A new study shows that a microRNA is involved in this process by modulating a component of the Hedgehog signal transduction pathway.

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