The Norway Facial Clefts Study generated data that the Epidemiology Branch and its collaborators published in peer-reviewed journal articles. To find out more about the study, please click the following links to journal articles and abstracts.
Jugessur A, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Murray JC, Taylor JA, Saugstad OD, Vindenes H, Åbyholm F. Variants of developmental genes (TGFA, TGFB3, and MSX1) and their associations with facial clefts: A case-parent triad analysis. Genet Epidemiol 24:230-9; 2003. [Abstract](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12652527)[download the PDF](http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/104083938/PDFSTART)
Jugessur A, Wilcox AJ, Lie RT, Murray JC, Taylor J, Ulvik A, Drevon CA, Vindenes HA, Åbyholm F. Exploring the effects of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene variants C677T and A1298C on the risk of orofacial clefts in 261 Norwegian case-parent triads. Am J Epidemiol 157:1083-91; 2003. [Abstract](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12796044)[Full Text](http://aje.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/157/12/1083)[download the PDF](http://aje.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/157/12/1083)
Jugessur A, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Murray JC, Taylor JA, Saugstad OD, Vindenes HA, Åbyholm FE. Cleft palate, transforming growth factor alpha gene variants, and maternal exposures: assessing gene-environment interactions in case-parent triads. Genetic Epidemiol 25:367-74; 2003. [Abstract](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14639706)[download the PDF](http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/106566189/PDFSTART)
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