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Maternal MTR genotype contributes to the risk of non-syndromic cleft lip and palate in the Polish population.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 2006
Mostowska A, Hozyasz K K, Jagodzinski P P
Abstract excerpt
The aetiology of non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is very complex. It has been shown that polymorphic variants of genes encoding key proteins of folate and methionine metabolism might be important maternal risk factors of having a child with this craniofacial anomaly. Therefore, in our study, mothers with CL/P children as well as control mothers were examined for prevalence of...
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