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Different roles of two novel susceptibility loci for nonsyndromic orofacial clefts in a Chinese Han population.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Sept 2011
Pan Yongchu, Zhang Weibing, Du Yifei, Tong Na, Han Yue, Zhang Hongchuang, Wang Meilin, Ma Junqing, Wan Linzhon, Wang Lin
Abstract excerpt
Nonsyndromic orofacial clefts (NSOC) are the most common developmental anomalies in human beings. Recently, a large-scale genome-wide association study identified two novel NSOC susceptibility loci: rs13041247 near MAFB and rs560426 near ABCA4. In the present study, we recruited 396 NSOC cases and 384 healthy controls to replicate their associations with risk of NSOC as well as their subgroups in a Chinese Han...
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