polydactyly in a sentence

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1. One of Fish's more unusual personal projects is an ongoing attempt to breed domestic cats for intelligence and other traits, including polydactyly.
2. The Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformation found an association between consanguinity and hydrocephalus, postaxial polydactyly, and bilateral oral and facial clefts.
3. Homozygous individuals inconsistently have skeletal anomalies such as post-axial polydactyly, short metacarpals, short upper limbs, short stature, or hyperkyphosis.
4. In the specific case of preaxial polydactyly ( Hemingway mutant ), a cis-acting mutation approximately 1Mb upstream of Shh gene has been implicated.
5. Typically the mutated gene is involved in developmental patterning, and a syndrome of congenital anomalies results, of which polydactyly is one feature or two.
6. The novel also reveals that Lecter's left hand has a condition called mid ray duplication polydactyly, i . e . a duplicated middle finger.
7. Radial hypoplasia is related to one form of polydactyly, sometimes called patty feet or hamburger feet by cat lovers to distinguish them from thumb cat polydactyls.
8. There are occasional problems, such as fused claws or claws facing in the wrong direction, but, generally, this form of polydactyly is harmless.
9. People with this condition typically have one or more extra fingers or toes ( polydactyly ) or an abnormally wide thumb or big toe ( hallux ).
10. This can affect gene expression nearby-such misregulation has been shown to cause limb malformations ( e . g . polydactyly ) in humans and mice.