Aquaporin locus (12q13.12) might contribute to susceptibility of temporomandibular joint disorder associated with periodontitis

• Mariana Bezamat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariana Bezamat, Emanuelle J. Cunha

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Emanuelle J. Cunha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariana Bezamat, Emanuelle J. Cunha

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Graduate Program of Dentistry, Pontífice Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Adriana M. Modesto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Alexandre R. Vieira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Juan M. Taboas

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jmt106@pitt.edu, jmtaboas2@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0523-3359

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