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Nature Cell Biology 10, 1251–1253 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/ncb1108-1251

Bad hair days for mouse PCP mutants

Jeffrey D. Axelrod

Mammalian body hairs begin as placodes in the basal epidermis. The placodes, separated from one another by basal epidermal cells, invaginate into the dermis to form hair germs and ultimately hair follicles from which the hairs emerge.