Compound developmental eye disorders following inactivation of TGFβ signaling in neural-crest stem cells

Lars M Ittner^1,6* , Heiko Wurdak^2* , Kerstin Schwerdtfeger^1* , Thomas Kunz¹ , Fabian Ille² , Per Leveen³ , Tord A Hjalt⁴ , Ueli Suter² , Stefan Karlsson³ , Farhad Hafezi⁵ , Walter Born¹ and Lukas Sommer²

¹  Research Laboratory for Calcium Metabolism, Orthopedic University Hospital Balgrist, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland

²  Institute of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

³  Departments for Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund University, S-22184 Lund, Sweden

⁴  Department of Cell and Molecular, Biology, Section for Cell and Developmental Biology, Lund University, S-22184 Lund, Sweden

⁵  IROC, Institute for Refractive and Ophthalmic Surgery, CH-8002 Zurich, Switzerland

⁶  Current address: Brain & Mind Research Institute (BMRI), University of Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia