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Novel Point Mutation in the Cardiac Transcription Factor CSX/NKX2.5 Associated With Congenital Heart Disease.
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
The homeobox transcription factor CSX/NKX2.5, which is a vertebrate homologue of the Drosophila gene tinman, is essential for cardiac development. It is expressed in the early cardiac mesoderm and in heart muscle lineage throughout life. Homozygous deletion of CSX/NKX2.5 causes early embryonic lethality in mice because cardiac development is arrested at the linear heart tube stage. Heterozygous mutation of human...
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