Genetic considerations of risk in human periodontal disease.

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Increasingly, evidence suggests that underlying host susceptibility factors play a significant role in periodontitis in high-risk patients and that this risk may be partly under genetic control. Support for a heritable component to periodontitis risk comes from the consistent association of periodontitis with certain monogenic traits, as well as from formal genetic studies of both twins and early onset...

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