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Cleft lip and palate

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Prevention is the ultimate objective for clefts of the lip and palate, and a prerequisite of this aim is to elucidate causes of the disorders.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2009-11-21. It has received 1344 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Oral cleft & IRF6.

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Cleft lip and palate: understanding genetic and environmental influences.

TL;DR: Using a combination of epidemiology, careful phenotyping, genome-wide association studies and analysis of animal models, several distinct genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified and confirmed for non-syndromic CLP.
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Genome-wide Association Studies Prospects and Challenges for Oral Health

TL;DR: The issues surrounding the genome-wide association study approach are discussed with emphasis on the prospects and challenges relevant to the oral health research community.
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A genome-wide association study of cleft lip with and without cleft palate identifies risk variants near MAFB and ABCA4

TL;DR: In this paper, case-parent trios were used in a genome-wide association study of cleft lip with and without cleft palate, and two previously identified regions (at chromosome 8q24 and IRF6) attained genomewide significance.
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Epidemiology of oral clefts 2012: an international perspective.

TL;DR: This chapter is set out in three parts and seeks to address all three of the above areas: Birth defects in general and orofacial clefting in particular, access to care and evidence base.
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Clinical observations of cleft lip and palate

TL;DR: In surgical management of cleft lip and palate, appreciation of the special anatomy and physiology of the human premaxilla is more important than the question of whether it is a separate bone.
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Malignant melanoma of the skin in children (0 to 14 years of age) in Denmark, 1943-1982.

TL;DR: A clinical and pathological evaluation was performed and it was found that childhood melanomas were gravely overdiagnosed in Denmark.
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Cleft palate formation: a role for pyridoxine in the closure of the secondary palate in mice.

TL;DR: Dietary pyridoxine deprivation in mice throughout pregnancy produced 20% cleft palate (CP), which was significantly increased when either 4-deoxypyrodoxine or cortisone was administered during the period of palate closure.

Excess of parental non-righthandedness in children with right-sided cleft lip: a preliminary report.

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TL;DR: Children with right-sided cleft lip are more likely to be non-right-handed than parents of children with left-handed or bilateral Cleft lip, and the implications are discussed.
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