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Congenital cardiac disease and inbreeding: specific defects escape higher risk due to parental consanguinity.
Cardiology in the young - 1 Aug 2007
Chehab Ghassan, Chedid Philippe, Saliba Zakhia, Bouvagnet Patrice
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To test on a large cohort whether parental consanguinity varies among different types of congenitally malformed hearts. METHODS AND RESULTS: Between 1 May, 1999, and 28 February, 2006, a large cohort of 1585 newly diagnosed cases with non-syndromic congenitally malformed heart was enrolled at the National Register of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, Lebanese Society of Cardiology, Beirut. Another...
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