Inheritance of cleft palate in Italy. Evidence for a major autosomal recessive locus

Human Genetics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 204-209

  Clementi, Maurizio ^a   Tenconi, Romano ^a   Forabosco, Paola ^b   Calzolari, Elisa ^c   Milan, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLEFT PALATE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC MODEL; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SOFT PALATE;

ALLELES; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EMILIA;

EID: 0030739768     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050491     Document Type: Article

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