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Progress toward understanding craniofacial malformations.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 1 Jan 1999
Nuckolls G H, Shum L, Slavkin H C
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Significant advances in the study of the human face have revealed the genetic and gene-environment bases of numerous common and rare craniofacial disorders. Classification of craniofacial malformations based on clinical phenotypes is sometimes quite different from the genetic findings of patients. Different mutations in a single gene can cause distinct syndromes, and mutations in different genes can cause the...
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