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Clinical application of genetics to guide prevention and treatment of oral diseases.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jul 2014
Kornman K S, Polverini P J
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Dental care costs in the United States exceed $100 billion annually. Personalized medicine efforts in dentistry are driven by potentially compelling clinical utility and cost-effectiveness prospects in the major diseases of periodontitis, caries, and oral cancers. This review discusses progress and challenges identifying genetic markers and showing clinical utility in dentistry. Genome-wide association studies...
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