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Clinical and genetic evaluation of a Chinese family with isolated oligodontia.
Archives of oral biology - 1 Sept 2013
Qin Han, Xu Hong-zhi, Xuan Kun
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Oligodontia is defined as the congenital absence of 6 or more permanent teeth excluding the third molar. Tooth agenesis may be classified as syndromic/non-syndromic and as familial/sporadic. To date, more than 300 genes have been found to be involved in tooth development, but only a few of these genes, such as MSX1, PAX9 and AXIN2, are related to the condition of non-syndromic oligodontia. The...
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