CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Plast Surg 2015; 48(02): 164-165
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0358.163054
Commentary
Association of Plastic Surgeons of India

Single nucleotide polymorphism of BMP4 Gene: A risk factor of non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate

Michael H. Carstens
Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA, Department of Surgery, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua Leon, Nicaragua, Department of Surgery, Military Teaching Hospital “Dr. Alejando Dávila Bolaños”, Managua, Nicaragua
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Address for correspondence:

Dr. Michael H. Carstens
Department of Surgery, Military Teaching Hospital “Dr. Alejando Dávila Bolaños”
Managua
Nicaragua   

Publication History

Publication Date:
26 August 2019 (online)

 

 


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  • REFERENCES

  • 1 Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhao X, Yu X, Hu Y, Geronimo B. et al. A new function of BMP4: Dual role for BMP4 in regulation of Sonic hedgehog expression in the mouse tooth germ. Development 2000; 127: 1431-43
  • 2 Zhang Z, Song Y, Zhao X, Zhang X, Fermin C, Chen Y. Rescue of cleft palate in Msx1-deficient mice by transgenic Bmp4 reveals a network of BMP and Shh signaling in the regulation of mammalian palatogenesis. Development 2002; 129: 4135-46

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Michael H. Carstens
Department of Surgery, Military Teaching Hospital “Dr. Alejando Dávila Bolaños”
Managua
Nicaragua   

  • REFERENCES

  • 1 Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhao X, Yu X, Hu Y, Geronimo B. et al. A new function of BMP4: Dual role for BMP4 in regulation of Sonic hedgehog expression in the mouse tooth germ. Development 2000; 127: 1431-43
  • 2 Zhang Z, Song Y, Zhao X, Zhang X, Fermin C, Chen Y. Rescue of cleft palate in Msx1-deficient mice by transgenic Bmp4 reveals a network of BMP and Shh signaling in the regulation of mammalian palatogenesis. Development 2002; 129: 4135-46