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From: Bone Fusion in Normal and Pathological Development is Constrained by the Network Architecture of the Human Skull

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The arrangement of bones in the human skull at birth modeled as a network (top). Nodes represent bones and links represent articulations among bones (cartilaginous and fibrous joints). Red links are articulations associated with craniosynostosis conditions; dashed links are articulations that close during the normal development of the skull. Note that the metopic suture between the left and right frontal bones closes in both pathological and normal development. Drawings illustrate the shape of the head in some of the conditions studied (bottom).

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