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TBX6 polymorphism is associated with congenital scoliosis
TBX6 polymorphism is associated with congenital scoliosis
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The single SNP analysis showed allele frequency of rs2289292 (exon 8, the only tagging SNP) and rs3809624 (5’untranslated region) demonstrated significant difference between CS cases and controls (P = 0.017 and P = 0.033),which suggests genetic variants of TBX6 gene is associated with CS.