"Named for its location at the crown of the head, the coronal suture is affected in a number of birth defects," said lead author D'Juan Farmer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Crump Lab. "These ...

"Named for its location at the crown of the head, the coronal suture is affected in a number of birth defects," said lead author D'Juan Farmer, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Gage Crump at USC.

"Named for its location at the crown of the head, the coronal suture is affected in a number of birth defects," said lead author D'Juan Farmer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Crump Lab. "These ...

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect in which one or more of the seams (sutures) in a baby’s skull close before the baby’s brain has fully formed. Normally, these sutures stay open until babies ...

These are the coronal sutures. It accounts for 20 to ... With craniosynostosis, there may be changes in a number of genes. A cell defect in the sutures causes them to fuse too early.

"Mouse models for this birth defect have already been developed ... suture at the crown of the skull--aptly named the coronal suture. Teng and her colleagues observed these live transgenic ...

It occurs when the sagittal suture, from the anterior fontanelle to the back of the head, closes too early. The infant’s head tends to grow long and narrow (scaphocephaly). Coronal ...

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect in which this fusion happens ... Of all the sutures needed to form a skull, the coronal suture is commonly affected in craniosynostosis. In this study, the ...

Isolated defects (nonsyndromic ... Results were grouped on the basis of suture diagnosis: sagittal, coronal, metopic, lambdoid, and complex. Individuals with a diagnosis of bilambdoid CS were ...

“Named for its location at the crown of the head, the coronal suture is affected in a number of birth defects,” said lead author D’Juan Farmer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Crump Lab.