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Nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in China: assessment of candidate regions.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 1 Mar 2002
Marazita Mary L, Field L Leigh, Cooper Margaret E, Tobias Rose, Maher Brion S, Peanchitlertkajorn Supakit, Liu You-e
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Although Asians have the highest birth prevalence of oral-facial clefts, the majority of gene mapping studies of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) have been in European or American Caucasians. Therefore, the objective of this study of Chinese families was to evaluate linkage and association between CL/P and 10 genetic markers in five chromosomal regions that have shown positive results in...
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