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Seth Weinberg, an associate professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the 51精品视频 School of Dental Medicine, and , assistant professor in the Department of Human Genetics at 51精品视频鈥檚 Graduate School of Public Health received a grant award of $1.7 million from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) for their project, 鈥淭he Genetic Architecture of Human Facial Morphology.鈥 This multi-institutional project also involves investigators at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Stanford University.聽
Building on , the study will attempt to identify genetic variants that influence human facial features. These observations will hopefully provide insight into genetic pathways and how they influence human facial development and growth. The information gathered will also be applied to studying orofacial clefting, the most common craniofacial birth defect in humans.聽