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A type of familial cleft of the soft palate maps to 2p24.2-p24.1 or 2p21-p12.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2010
Tsuda Masayoshi, Yamada Takahiro, Mikoya Tadashi, Sogabe Izumi, Nakashima Mitsuko, Minakami Hisanori, Kishino Tatsuya, Kinoshita Akira, Niikawa Norio, Hirano Akiyoshi, Yoshiura Koh-ichiro
Abstract excerpt
Cleft of the soft palate (CSP) and the hard palate are subtypes of cleft palate. Patients with either condition often have difficulty with speech and swallowing. Nonsyndromic, cleft palate isolated has been reported to be associated with several genes, but to our knowledge, there have been no detailed genetic investigations of CSP. We performed a genome-wide linkage analysis using a single-nucleotide...
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