Transforming growth factor alpha: a modifying locus for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate?

doi:10.1159/000472359

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Transforming growth factor alpha: a modifying locus for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate?

European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 1994

Field L L, Ray A K, Marazita M L

Abstract excerpt

Most (but not all) studies have found weak but significant association between restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the transforming growth factor alpha (TGFA) locus on chromosome 2p13 and nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL +/- P). However, all attempts to demonstrate...

Topics

Alleles
Chromosome Mapping
Cleft Lip
Cleft Palate
DNA
Female
Genetic Linkage
Humans
Male
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
Transforming Growth Factor alpha

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