Article
Investigation of genetic factors underlying typical orofacial clefts: mutational screening and copy number variation.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2015
Simioni Milena, Araujo Tânia Kawasaki, Monlleo Isabella Lopes, Maurer-Morelli Cláudia Vianna, Gil-da-Silva-Lopes Vera Lúcia
Abstract excerpt
Typical orofacial clefts (OFCs) comprise cleft lip, cleft palate and cleft lip and palate. The complex etiology has been postulated to involve chromosome rearrangements, gene mutations and environmental factors. A group of genes including IRF6, FOXE1, GLI2, MSX2, SKI, SATB2, MSX1 and FGF has been implicated in the etiology of OFCs. Recently, the role of the copy number variations (CNVs) has been studied in...
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