title: Congenital absence of teeth: a review with emphasis on inheritance patterns.
abstract: Congenital absence of teeth is a heritably phenomenon probably most often passed to each generation by an autosomal dominant pattern with incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity. Correlation of hypodontia with systemic disease leads to the hypothesis that this frequent dental anomaly may in some cases be a microform of systemic ectodermal dysplasia.
mesh_terms: D000848:Anodontia / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D003817:Dentition / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D004423:Ear / Q000002:abnormalities; D004476:Ectodermal Dysplasia / Q000235:genetics; D005385:Fingers / Q000002:abnormalities; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006197:Hair / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus / Q000002:abnormalities; D008046:Lip / Q000002:abnormalities; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010641:Phenotype; D012730:Sex Chromosomes; D012737:Sex Factors; D013577:Syndrome; D014071:Tooth Abnormalities / Q000235:genetics; D014314:Trisomy