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Genetically alike Syrian hamsters display both bifoliate and trifoliate aortic valves.
Journal of anatomy - 1 Jan 2012
Sans-Coma Valentín, Carmen Fernández M, Fernández Borja, Durán Ana C, Anderson Robert H, Arqué Josep M
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The bifoliate, or bicuspid, aortic valve (BAV) is the most frequent congenital cardiac anomaly in man. It is a heritable defect, but its mode of inheritance remains unclear. Previous studies in Syrian hamsters showed that BAVs with fusion of the right and left coronary leaflets are expressions of a trait, the variation of which takes the form of a phenotypic continuum. It ranges from a trifoliate valve with no...
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