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Novel IRF6 mutations in Honduran Van der Woude syndrome patients.
Molecular medicine reports - 1 Jan 2000
Birkeland Andrew C, Larrabee Yuna, Kent David T, Flores Carlos, Su Gloria H, Lee Joseph H, Haddad Joseph
Abstract excerpt
Van der Woude syndrome (VWS) is an autosomal dominant inherited disease characterized by lower lip pits, cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Missense, nonsense and frameshift mutations in IRF6 have been revealed to be responsible for VWS in European, Asian, North American and Brazilian populations. However, the mutations responsible for VWS have not been studied in Central American populations. Here, we investigated...
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