Pleiotropy method reveals genetic overlap between orofacial clefts at multiple novel loci from GWAS of multi-ethnic trios.

Based on epidemiologic and embryologic patterns, nonsyndromic orofacial clefts- the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans- are commonly categorized into cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) and cleft palate alone (CP), which are traditionally considered to be etiologically distin...

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Main Authors: Debashree Ray, Sowmya Venkataraghavan, Wanying Zhang, Elizabeth J Leslie, Jacqueline B Hetmanski, Seth M Weinberg, Jeffrey C Murray, Mary L Marazita, Ingo Ruczinski, Margaret A Taub, Terri H Beaty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009584