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Variants in GATA4 are a rare cause of familial and sporadic congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Human genetics - 1 Mar 2013
Yu Lan, Wynn Julia, Cheung Yee Him, Shen Yufeng, Mychaliska George B, Crombleholme Timothy M, Azarow Kenneth S, Lim Foong Yen, Chung Dai H, Potoka Douglas, Warner Brad W, Bucher Brian, Stolar Charles, Aspelund Gudrun, Arkovitz Marc S, Chung Wendy K
Abstract excerpt
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is characterized by incomplete formation of the diaphragm occurring as either an isolated defect or in association with other anomalies. Genetic factors including aneuploidies and copy number variants are important in the pathogenesis of many cases of CDH, but few single genes have been definitively implicated in human CDH. In this study, we used whole exome sequencing (WES)...
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