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Aggressive periodontitis is likely influenced by a few small effect genes.
Journal of clinical periodontology - 1 Jun 2009
de Carvalho Flavia M, Tinoco Eduardo M B, Govil Manika, Marazita Mary L, Vieira Alexandre R
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AIM: To evaluate the inheritance mode of aggressive periodontitis in a collection of families with a similar geographic origin. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Segregation analysis was performed in pedigree data from 74 families by the use of the SEGREG program of SAGE v.5.4.2. Homogeneous no transmission, homogeneous Mendelian transmission, homogeneous general transmission, semi-general transmission and heterogeneous...
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