Article
Congenital cardiovascular malformations (CCVM) and structural chromosome abnormalities: a report of 9 cases and literature review.
Clinical genetics - 1 Sept 1990
Roskes E J, Boughman J A, Schwartz S, Cohen M M
Abstract excerpt
Nine cases of congenital cardiovascular malformations (CCVM) with associated unbalanced structural chromosomal abnormalities were ascertained in a population-based study of heart defects, constituting 0.4% of the 2,103 cases of CCVM in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study (BWIS). This represents a four-fold increase over the general population rate. In an effort to determine possible phenotype/karyotype...
Topics
- Case-Control Studies
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Disorders
- District of Columbia
- Genes
- Heart Defects, Congenital
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Karyotyping
- Maryland
- Phenotype
