mortality/aging
craniofacial
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• craniofacial defects due to open neural tube
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embryo
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• severely affected embryos are arrested in development around E8.5
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• failure of neural tube closure to varying degrees
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nervous system
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• failure of neural tube closure to varying degrees
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• lack of tissue overlying the telencephalic vesicle
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• some embryos lack forebrain structures
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