Growth factor gene shown to be key to cleft palate

Friday, February 5, 2010 - 00:21 in Biology & Nature

Cleft palate has been linked to dozens of genes. During their investigation of one of these genes, researchers were surprised to find that cleft palate occurs both when the gene is more active and when it is less active than normal.

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