Stanislas Lyonnet and colleagues report a new locus associated with Pierre Robin sequence, an important subgroup of cleft palate. They find that translocations, deletions and point mutation affecting highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) found at distances on either side of SOX9 are associated with PRS.
- Sabina Benko
- Judy A Fantes
- Stanislas Lyonnet
