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Toward pathogenesis of Apert cleft palate: FGF, FGFR, and TGF beta genes are differentially expressed in sequential stages of human palatal shelf fusion.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 1 May 2002
Britto Jonathan A, Evans Robert D, Hayward Richard D, Jones Barry M
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OBJECTIVE: Critical cellular events at the palatal medial edge epithelium (MEE) occur in unperturbed mammalian palatogenesis, the molecular control of which involves a number of growth factors including transforming growth factor beta 3 (TGF beta 3). Apert syndrome is a monogenic human disorder in which cleft palate has been significantly correlated to the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) 2-Ser252Trp...
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