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Orofacial clefts, parental cigarette smoking, and transforming growth factor-alpha gene variants.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 1996
Shaw G M, Wasserman C R, Lammer E J, O'Malley C D, Murray J C, Basart A M, Tolarova M M
Abstract excerpt
Results of studies to determine whether women who smoke during early pregnancy are at increased risk of delivering infants with orofacial clefts have been mixed, and recently a gene-environment interaction between maternal smoking, transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFa), and clefting has been reported. Using a large population-based case-control study, we investigated whether parental periconceptional cigarette...
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