Sex-specific genetic factors affect the risk of early-onset periodontitis in Europeans.

Sandra Freitag-WolfMatthias MunzOlaf JungeChristian Graetz Yvonne Jockel-SchneiderIngmar StaufenbielCorinna BruckmannWolfgang LiebAndre FrankeBruno G LoosSøeren Jepsen Henrik Dommisch Arne S Schaefer

Published in: Journal of clinical periodontology (2021)

Our results indicate that natural genetic variation affects the different heritability of periodontitis among sexes and suggest genes that contribute to inter-sex phenotypic variation in early-onset periodontitis.

Keyphrases

early onset
late onset
genome wide
copy number
bioinformatics analysis