Clifford Tabin
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Clifford James Tabin is chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.
Cliff Tabin in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Hox gene
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Hox genes, a subset of homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals. Hox proteins encode and specify the characte
Clifford Tabin
…and evolution. Early in his research he investigated limb regeneration in the salamander, and described the expression of retinoic acid receptor and Hox genes in the blastema. Comparative studies by Ann Burke in his lab showed that differences in boundaries of Hox gene expression correlated with differences…
Wild type (left), Antennapedia mutant (right)
Hox genes in various species, using a sequence grouping.