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Type: | Book chapter |
Title: | Genes for teeth - drawing inference from family data |
Author: | Hughes, T. Townsend, G. |
Citation: | New Directions in Dental Anthropology: paradigms, methodologies and outcomes, 2012 / Townsend, G., Kanazawa, E., Takayama, H. (ed./s), pp.22-34 |
Publisher: | University of Adelaide Press |
Publisher Place: | Australia |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISBN: | 9780987171870 |
Editor: | Townsend, G. Kanazawa, E. Takayama, H. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Toby Hughes and Grant Townsend |
Abstract: | Development of the human dentition, a complex, self-organising system, is underpinned by a series of reiterative steps involving a number of key gene pathways, supplemented by smaller influences of a polygenic background. Modelling familial data of dental phenotypes can help to unravel genetic and environmental influences. This paper presents a review of a number of model-based appraoches that can be usefuly analytically, with a focus on twins, as the familial structure to elaborate genetic complexity. Genetic modelling is methodologically robust, and provides a framework within which to locate evidence of gene effects from modern, high-throughput genotyping approaches. The twin family structure is particularly well-suited to this approach, and provides a number of distinct advantages analytically, particularly in the presence of population stratification. |
DOI: | 10.1017/UPO9780987171870.004 |
Grant ID: | NHMRC |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/upo9780987171870.004 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Dentistry publications |
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