Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Real News about Talipes

This was released on July 2nd - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/193615.php#post - finally, real research yielding real information for club feet! I urge you all to read this - while it won't assist us adult clubbies, it may impact parents of children with club feet, at least by way of aiding them to understand their child's situation better.

An excerpt:

Initially, Gurnett and her research team, including Matthew B. Dobbs, MD, associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the School of Medicine, screened the DNA of 40 patients with inherited clubfoot. Two were found to have nearly identical DNA duplications on chromosome 17 in a region previously linked to limb abnormalities, developmental delays and heart defects. That DNA duplication was not found in the DNA of 700 control subjects without clubfoot.

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