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Maternal alcohol consumption, alcohol metabolism genes, and the risk of oral clefts: a population-based case-control study in Norway, 1996-2001.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Oct 2010
Boyles Abee L, DeRoo Lisa A, Lie Rolv T, Taylor Jack A, Jugessur Astanand, Murray Jeffrey C, Wilcox Allen J
Abstract excerpt
Heavy maternal alcohol consumption during early pregnancy increases the risk of oral clefts, but little is known about how genetic variation in alcohol metabolism affects this association. Variants in the alcohol dehydrogenase 1C (ADH1C) gene may modify the association between alcohol and clefts. In a population-based case-control study carried out in Norway (1996-2001), the authors examined the association...
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