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Current advances in Holt-Oram syndrome.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Dec 2002
Huang Taosheng
Abstract excerpt
Holt-Oram syndrome is an autosomal-dominant condition characterized by congenital cardiac and forelimb anomalies. It is caused by mutations of the TBX5 gene, a member of the T-box family that encodes a transcription factor. Molecular studies have demonstrated that mutations predicted to create null alleles cause substantial abnormalities in both the limbs and heart, and that missense mutations of TBX5 can produce...
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