Original ArticleA Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies a Locus for Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip with or without Cleft Palate on 8q24
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Methods
All cases and control subjects were consecutively recruited within the same study from the Greater Philadelphia area from 2006 to 2009 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. All of these participants had blood 8 mL drawn in an ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid collection tube, and DNA was subsequently extracted for genotyping. All subjects were biologically unrelated, that is, simplex cases, and were aged between 0 and 18 years of age. Of the 111 NSCL/P cases, 77 were male and 34 were
Results
After genotyping on our study cohort of 111 NSCL/P cases and 5951 control subjects of European ancestry, the resulting genomic inflation factor was only 1.025, suggesting that the ancestry of cases and control subjects is well matched. SNPs were rejected with call rates <95%, minor allele frequencies <1% and with hardy Weinberg equilibrium P < 10−5, leaving 495 858 SNPs available for analysis. Single-marker allele frequencies were compared by use of χ2 statistics for all markers (Figure).
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Discussion
Molecular events that strongly influence the formation of orofacial structures have been shown to be tightly controlled by sets of genes including fibroblast growth factors, sonic hedgehog, bone morphogenetic proteins, members of the transforming growth factor β super-family and transcription factors.5 Although such knowledge has significantly enhanced our current understanding of the molecular events underlying orofacial clefting, NSCL/P is considered a classic example of a complex trait
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This research was financially supported by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and in part by a Research Development Award from the Cotswold Foundation (H.H. & S.F.A.G). The authors declare no conflicts of interest.