Phenotypic variability and craniofacial dysmorphology: Increased shape variance in a mouse model for cleft lip

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Parsons, Trish E ^a   Kristensen, Erika ^a   Hornung, Lynnette ^a   Diewert, Virginia M ^b   Boyd, Steven K ^a   German, Rebecca Z ^c   Hallgrímsson, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleft lip and palate; Computed microtomography; Craniofacial development; Mouse embryos; Palate formation; Three dimensional morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MUS;

EID: 38849193963     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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