Could we prevent unilateral cleft lip/palate in the future?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 601-603

  Mladina, Ranko ^a   Skitarelić, Neven B ^b   Skitarelić, Nataša P ^b  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL ZADAR   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NOSE SEPTUM; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY;

CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FORECASTING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 69249216393     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.05.028     Document Type: Article

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