Linkage disequilibrium between IRF6 variants and nonsyndromic cleft lip/palate in the Chilean population

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 146, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2706-2708

  Suazo, José ^a   Santos, José Luis ^b   Jara, Lilian ^a   Blanco, Rafael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 6;

CHILE; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHNICITY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRF6 GENE; LETTER; LIP MALFORMATION; NONSYNDROMIC CLEFT LIP PALATE; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 55549092097     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32494     Document Type: Letter

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