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Identification of GATA6 sequence variants in patients with congenital heart defects.
Pediatric research - 1 Oct 2010
Maitra Meenakshi, Koenig Sara N, Srivastava Deepak, Garg Vidu
Abstract excerpt
Although the etiology for the majority of congenital heart disease (CHD) remains poorly understood, the known genetic causes are often the result of mutations in cardiac developmental genes. GATA6 encodes for a cardiac transcription factor, which is broadly expressed in the developing heart and is critical for normal cardiac morphogenesis, making it a candidate gene for congenital heart defects in humans. The...
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