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Genetic factors in non-syndromic congenital heart malformations.
Clinical genetics - 1 Aug 2010
Wessels M W, Willems P J
Abstract excerpt
The genetic defect in most patients with non-syndromic congenital heart malformations (CHM) is unknown, although more than 40 different genes have already been implicated. Only a minority of CHM seems to be due to monogenetic mutations, and the majority occurs sporadically. The multifactorial inheritance hypothesis of common diseases suggesting that the cumulative effect of multiple genetic and environmental risk...
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