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Down syndrome congenital heart disease: a narrowed region and a candidate gene.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Barlow G M, Chen X N, Shi Z Y, Lyons G E, Kurnit D M, Celle L, Spinner N B, Zackai E, Pettenati M J, Van Riper A J, Vekemans M J, Mjaatvedt C H, Korenberg J R
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Down syndrome (DS) is a major cause of congenital heart disease (CHD) and the most frequent known cause of atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs). Molecular studies of rare individuals with CHD and partial duplications of chromosome 21 established a candidate region that included D21S55 through the telomere. We now report human molecular and cardiac data that narrow the DS-CHD region, excluding two...
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