Limb Lengthening Forum

Community Hangout => Off Topic => Topic started by: Outgrown on January 26, 2015, 03:09:43 PM

Title: SHH Gene
Post by: Outgrown on January 26, 2015, 03:09:43 PM

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/SHH

Crazy to know that the gene responsible for limb growth and stature is named after a video game character, and the inhibitor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog#Robotnikinin ) of it is named after it's antagonist... I think it's quite silly, but what do you think?