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==Overview==
The term '''ramogen''' refers to a biological factor, typically a [[growth factor]] or other [[protein]], that causes a developing biological cell or tissue to branch in a tree-like manner. 

The term was first coined (from the Latin ''ramus'' = branch and the Greek  ''genesis'' = creation) in an article about kidney development by Davies and Davey (Pediatr Nephrol. 1999 Aug;13(6):535-41), and has now passed into general use in the technical literature concerned with branching of biological structures.

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