The people behind the papers - Kirsty Uttley, Hannah Jüllig and Hannah Long.

Deletions in EC1.45, a non-coding element upstream of SOX2, cause craniofacial developmental differences. In their study, Hannah Long and colleagues study the contribution of this enhancer to facial variation and evolution by investigating Neanderthal-specific variations. To learn more about this work, we spoke to co-first authors Kirsty Uttley and Hannah Jüllig, and the corresponding author Hannah Long, a Group Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Development

• Publication date

  2025-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/dev.205194PMID 41208709
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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