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Non-synonymous variants in pre-B cell leukemia homeobox (PBX) genes are associated with congenital heart defects.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 2012
Arrington Cammon B, Dowse Benjamin R, Bleyl Steven B, Bowles Neil E
Abstract excerpt
Congenital cardiac malformations are one of the most common birth defects and most are believed to be multigenic/multifactorial in nature. Recently mice lacking Pre-B cell leukemia transcription homeobox (PBX) genes were created and found to have a range of ventricular outflow tract (OFT) malformations. Therefore, we screened 95 patients with congenital heart defects, including OFT malformations, for variants in...
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