Study of British and Finnish researchers have identified a gene that is associated with a 35% increase in the probability that one who has need of orthodontic treatment at age 30.
According to research conducted by scientists at Imperial College London and the Universities of Bristol (UK) and Oulu (Finland), the teeth of babies with certain genetic variants tend to appear later and are more likely to require braces.
To reach these conclusions, published in the journal PLoS Genetics, examined the genetic code of 6,000 individuals from whom data were available from fetal development through adulthood. (more…)
