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Association Study of Transforming Growth Factor Alpha TaqI Polymorphism and the Risk of Cleft Lip and/or Palate in an Iranian Population.
Birth defects research - 16 Oct 2017
Bagheri Fahimeh, Ebadifar Asghar, Khorram Khorshid Hamid Reza, Kamali Koorosh
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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to evaluate the association of TGFA TaqI polymorphism with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate (NSCLP) in an Iranian population. METHODS: In this case-control study, 113 children with NSCLP and 209 controls were included. Genotyping of the TaqI polymorphism was performed by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism methods. A p-value of <0.05 was...
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