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Cleft lip and palate: no evidence of linkage to transforming growth factor alpha.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1991
Hecht J T, Wang Y P, Blanton S H, Michels V V, Daiger S P
Abstract excerpt
Recently, an association of a specific transforming growth factor alpha (TGFA) haplotype has been reported to occur in patients with nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate (CLP) who had a positive family history of the disorder. We tested linkage of CLP to TGFA in 12 multiplex families with clefting. TGFA haplotypes were constructed on the basis of three polymorphic restriction sites. No haplotype was associated with...
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