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The prevalence of 16p12.1 microdeletion in patients with left-sided cardiac lesions.
Congenital heart disease - 1 Jan 2000
D'Alessandro Lisa C A, Werner Petra, Xie Hongbo M, Hakonarson Hakon, White Peter S, Goldmuntz Elizabeth
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SETTING: Left-sided cardiac lesions have a birth prevalence of approximately 1 in 1000 and have been shown to be heritable in pedigree studies. A large microdeletion at 16p12.1 is associated with childhood developmental delay, and initial studies describing this deletion identified left-sided lesions as an enriched phenotype compared with a control population. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine...
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