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Nature 427, 592-594 (12 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427592a

Medicine: Genetic spotlight on a blood defect

Diether Lambrechts1 & Peter Carmeliet1

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The causes of defects in the blood system of newborn babies can be hard to establish if the errors are not inherited. An elegant approach has identified a gene that can encourage new blood vessels to grow.

Babies who are born with defects in their vascular system face serious medical and social problems. But we know little about the cause of these blood-vessel anomalies1, 2.

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