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SUBMITTER: Kuchler EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8147469 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Küchler Erika Calvano EC Reis Caio Luiz Bitencourt CLB Marañón-Vásquez Guido G Nelson-Filho Paulo P Matsumoto Mírian Aiko Nakane MAN Stuani Maria Bernadete Sasso MBS Oliveira Maria Angélica Hueb de Menezes MAHM Proff Peter P Kirschneck Christian C
Journal of personalized medicine 20210502 5
In this study we evaluated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the genes encoding PTH, VDR, CYP24A1, and CYP27B1 were associated with mandibular retrognathism (MR). Samples from biologically-unrelated Brazilian patients receiving orthodontic treatment were included in this study. Pre-orthodontic lateral cephalograms were used to determine the phenotype. Patients with a retrognathic mandible were selected as cases and those with an orthognathic mandible were selected as controls. Ge ...[more]