Article
High prevalence of cleft lip among the Bari Indians of western Venezuela.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - 1 Jul 1993
Ballew C, Beckerman S J, Lizarralde R
Abstract excerpt
Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL +/- P) is of high prevalence in an isolated, inbred indigenous population of the Venezuelan rain forest: 12 contemporary probands are known in a population of 1200. CL +/- P is familial in this population. One kindred contains four affected siblings and...
Topics
- Alleles
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cleft Lip
- Cleft Palate
- Cohort Studies
- Consanguinity
- Female
- Genes, Homeobox
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
- Indians, South American
- Male
- Marriage
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Prevalence
- Transforming Growth Factor alpha