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Maternal smoking and oral clefts: the role of detoxification pathway genes.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jul 2008
Lie Rolv T, Wilcox Allen J, Taylor Jack, Gjessing Håkon K, Saugstad Ola Didrik, Aabyholm Frank, Vindenes Halvard
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BACKGROUND: There is evidence for an effect of cigarette smoking on risk of oral clefts. There are also hypothetical pathways for a biologic effect involving toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke. METHODS: We performed a combined case-control and family-triad study of babies born with oral clefts in Norway in the period 1996 to 2001, with 88% participation among cases (n = 573) and 76% participation among controls...
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