Ectopia

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Ectopia is a displacement or malposition of an organ of the body. Most ectopia are congenital but some may happen later in life.

• Ectopia lentis is the displacement of the crystalline lens of the eye
• Ectopia cordis is the displacement of the heart outside the body during foetal development
• Renal ectopia occurs when both kidneys occur on the same side of the body
• Ectopic Pregnancy occurs when the fertilized egg implants anywhere other than the uterine wall.

• In molecular biology we say a gene have an ectopic expression when is located in a place where normally is not expressed. In research a transgene is made by the introduction of a gene from an organism in other organism, and then inducing its expression.