Parental cigarette smoking, transforming growth factor-alpha gene variant and the risk of orofacial cleft in Iranian infants

Objective(s):We investigated the influence of genetic variation of the transforming growth-factor alpha (TGFA) locus on the relationship between smoking and oral clefts. Materials and methods:In this study 105 Iranian infants with non-syndromic cleft lip/palate and 218 controls with non-cleft birth...

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Main Authors: Asghar Ebadifar, Roya Hamedi, Hamid Reza KhorramKhorshid, Koorosh Kamali, Fatemeh Aghakhani Moghadam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2016-04-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://ijbms.mums.ac.ir/article_6807_00980a84018a1d090ec5b14cfa975193.pdf