Cleft lip and palate: Genes more important than thought?
Sunday, March 8, 2009 - 15:49
in Biology & Nature
Comparing 500,000 snippets of human DNA put scientists from the University of Bonn on the right track. A genetic variant on chromosome 8 occurs with significantly higher frequency in people with cleft lip and palate than in the control group. The results are to be published in the forthcoming issue of the journal Nature Genetics.