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Leveraging the genetics of human face shape boosts the discovery of orofacial cleft risk loci

2026-02-03 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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Several lines of evidence suggest that normal-range facial features and nonsyndromic orofacial clefts (OFCs) exhibit a shared genetic basis. Approaches designed to leverage this relationship hold the possibility of revealing new OFC risk loci by boosting discovery power. To test this idea, we applied a pleiotropy-informed GWAS method (cFDR-GWAS) with summary statistics from large, independent European GWASs of normal facial shape (n=4,680; n=3,566) and nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without clef...

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