Regulatory variant in fzd6 gene contributes to nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate in an african-american family

Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 440-451

  Cvjetkovic, Nevena ^a,b   Maili, Lorena ^a   Weymouth, Katelyn S ^a,b   Hashmi, S Shahrukh ^a   Mulliken, John B ^c   Topczewski, Jacek ^d   Letra, Ariadne ^b,e   Yuan, Qiuping ^a   Blanton, Susan H ^f   Swindell, Eric C ^a   Hecht, Jacqueline T ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DENTAL BRANCH AT HOUSTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frizzled 6; Nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate; Regulatory variant; WNT pathway

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006037712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23249269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.155     Document Type: Article

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