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Investigation of SUMO pathway genes in the etiology of nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate.
Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology - 1 Jun 2012
Carta Eloisa, Pauws Erwin, Thomas Anna C, Mengrelis Konstantinos, Moore Gudrun E, Lees Melissa, Stanier Philip
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BACKGROUND: SUMO1 has been implicated as having a role in the causation of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CLP), both directly and through association studies in humans and, perhaps more controversially, in transgenic mouse studies. METHODS: To screen for sequence variants that might be responsible for human CLP, we performed direct DNA sequence analysis in a well-characterized white European cohort of...
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