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Prediction of liability to orofacial clefting using genetic and craniofacial data from parents.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 May 1998
Mossey P A, Arngrimsson R, McColl J, Vintiner G M, Connor J M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL(P)) and isolated cleft palate (CP) are separate clinical entities and for both polygenic multifactorial aetiology has been proposed. Parents of children with orofacial clefting have been shown to have distinctive differences in their facial shape when compared to matched controls. OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that genetic and morphometric factors...
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