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Investigation of the N-terminal coding region of MUC7 alterations in dentistry students with and without caries

L Koç Öztürk

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Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics

Volume 19 (2016): Issue 1 (June 2016)

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Article Category: Original Article

Published Online: Aug 02, 2016

Page range: 71 - 76

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjmg-2016-0009

Keywords
Dental caries, oral hygine indicis, low molecular weight salivar mucin (MUC7)

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Chromatogram analysis showing the polymorphic site within the MUC7 gene. The arrow indicate the SNP site. A C>G transversion at codon 80 leads to an asparagine to lysine change in the protein.

Mean levels of all parameters, and p values for the examined groups_

Parameters	Group With No Caries (n=20)	Group With Caries (n=24)	p Value
Simplified oral hygiene index	0.14 ± 0.008	0.15 ± 0.011	0.605
Gingival index	0.017 ± 0.008	0.02 ± 0.009	0.507
pH	7.02 ± 0.41	7.17 ± 0.35	0.292
Salivary flow rate (mL/min.)	0.48 ± 0.22	0.52 ± 0.24	0.577
Salivary buffering capacity	1.63 ± 0.32	1.50 ± 0.29	0.174
Salivary total protein (mg/dL)	131.00 ± 48.00	132.00 ± 49.00	0.871

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