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A heritable cause of cleft lip and palate--Van der Woude syndrome caused by a novel IRF6 mutation. Review of the literature and of the differential diagnosis.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 Feb 2010
Ferrero Giovanni Battista, Baldassarre Giuseppina, Panza Emanuele, Valenzise Mariella, Pippucci Tommaso, Mussa Alessandro, Pepe Ernesto, Seri Marco, Silengo Margherita Cirillo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Orofacial clefts are common congenital malformations usually characterized by a multifactorial etiology. These heterogeneous defects comprise cleft lip (CL), CL with cleft palate (CL/P), and cleft palate, sometimes observed in recognizable syndromes, with mendelian, chromosomal, or environmental pathogenesis. The Van der Woude syndrome is a mendelian CL/P, accounting for about 2% of all cases and...
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