Table 3. The top 10 cited articles on tooth agenesis.

Rank	Title	First author	Journal	Citations	Year
1	A meta-analysis of the prevalence of dental agenesis of permanent teeth	Polder, Bart J	Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology	496	2004
2	Mutations in AXIN2 cause familial tooth agenesis and predispose to colorectal cancer	Lammi, Laura	American Journal of Human Genetics	422	2004
3	Rescue of cleft palate in Msx1-deficient mice by transgenic Bmp4 reveals a network of BMP and Shh signaling in the regulation of mammalian palatogenesis	Zhang, Zunyi	Development	296	2002
						4	Hay-Wells syndrome is caused by heterozygous missense mutations in the SAM domain of p63	McGrath, John A	Human Molecular Genetics	225	2006
5	Craniofacial tissue engineering by stem cells	Thesleff, Irma	Journal of Dental Research	217	2006
6	The genetic basis of tooth development and dental defects	Vieira, Alexandre Rezende	American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A	171	2008
7	Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2-IIIb acts upstream of Shh and Fgf4 and is required for limb bud maintenance but not for the induction of Fgf8, Fgf10, Msx1, or Bmp4	Revest, Jean Michel	Developmental Biology	170	2003
						8	Mutations in MTMR13, a new pseudophosphatase homologue of MTMR2 and Sbf1, in two families with an autosomal recessive demyelinating form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease associated with early-onset glaucoma	Azzedine, Hamid	American Journal of Human Genetics	160	2001
9	The transcription factor gene Nfib is essential for both lung maturation and brain development	Steele-Perkins, George	Molecular and Cellular Biology	158	2007
10	Unique functions of Sonic hedgehog signaling during external genitalia development	Haraguchi, Ryuma	Development	154	2001