Breathe in and Straighten Your Back: Hypoxia, Notch, and Scoliosis Lola Bajard, Andrew C. Oates Cell Volume 149, Issue 2, Pages 255-256 (April 2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.03.024 Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Hypothesis for a Gene-Environment Interaction Causing Congenital Scoliosis Environmental hypoxia (A), acting on a predisposing genotype (B), affects the segmentation clock that patterns somites (C), the precursors for vertebrae. This gene-environment interaction increases the severity and penetrance of the congenital scoliosis phenotype (D) that occurs sporadically in heterozygous mutants for genes of the Notch pathway. Cell 2012 149, 255-256DOI: (10.1016/j.cell.2012.03.024) Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions