The many faces and factors of orofacial clefts

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1853-1859

  Schutte, Brian C ^a   Murray, Jeffrey C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACE DEVELOPMENT; FACE MALFORMATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIP MALFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PALATE MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MAXILLOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0032881718     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.10.1853     Document Type: Review

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