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Contact: Becky Soglin
becky-soglin@uiowa.edu
319-335-6660
University of Iowa
Caption: University of Iowa researchers have discovered that mutations in FGF signaling pathway genes contribute to cleft lip and palate. The top figure shows the normal sequence for a region of the FGFR1 gene; the bottom figure shows a mutation in the same region for a person with cleft lip and palate.
Credit: University of Iowa, Jeff Murray Lab/Bridget Riley
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