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Article: Research on cleft palate in children discussed by scientists at Utah State University.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- February 25, 2009
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New investigation results, 'Plasma zinc concentrations of mothers and the risk of oral clefts in their children in Utah,' are detailed in a study published in Birth Defects Research Part A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology. According to recent research from the United States, "The role of maternal zinc nutrition in human oral clefts (OCs) is unclear. We measured plasma zinc concentrations (PZn) of case and control mothers to evaluate the associations between PZn and risk of OCs with and without other malformations."
"Case mothers were ascertained by the Utah Birth Defects Network and control mothers were selected from Utah birth certificates by matching for ...