Denis J. Headon

The paper identifies a 10 bp deletion in PRICKLE1 causing skeletal dysplasia in Cheviot sheep and develops a DNA test to eliminate the mutation.

This study characterizes human hair follicle development from gestational weeks 8 to 19, comparing it to mouse development and identifying similarities and differences in molecular markers and morphogenesis.

FuChi is a new Fucci-based system in chickens that accurately tracks cell cycle phases in vivo, improving upon existing models by distinguishing all phases and enabling detailed developmental studies.

The paper characterizes a second gain-of-function EDAR variant, EDAR380R, and finds it has increased signaling output but lacks the same signs of positive selection as EDAR370A.