YAP1 and hereditary disease: •TEAD, YAP, and TAZ expression in human reproductive tissues (https://www.proteinatlas.org)•Impaired pregnancy-induced mammary tissue growth in MMTV-Cre; Yapflox/flox mice (Chen et al., 2014)•Human genetic disorders and abnormal developmental phenotypes (including embryonic lethality) in mice with germline deletion of key Hippo pathway effectors