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Challenges in Periodontal Genetics Research

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What if you had a dresser drawer filled with thousands of puzzle pieces mixed together from an unknown number of jigsaw puzzles, and you wanted to solve each puzzle separately? How would you begin to sort this out? This puzzle drawer is analogous to what many researchers face when trying to discover the underlying genetic and environmental causes linked to complex forms of human disease.

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  1. Department of Periodontology, University of Tromsø Institute of Clinical Dentistry, Tromsø, Norway

    Alexandrina L. Dumitrescu

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Dumitrescu, A.L. (2012). Challenges in Periodontal Genetics Research. In: Understanding Periodontal Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28923-1_17

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