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Prevalence and spectrum of PITX2c mutations associated with congenital heart disease.
DNA and cell biology - 1 Dec 2013
Wang Juan, Xin Yuan-Feng, Xu Wen-Jun, Liu Zhong-Min, Qiu Xing-Biao, Qu Xin-Kai, Xu Lei, Li Xin, Yang Yi-Qing
Abstract excerpt
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common form of birth defect and is the leading noninfectious cause of infant death. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that genetic risk factors are involved in the pathogenesis of CHD. However, CHD is a genetically heterogeneous disease and the genetic defects underlying CHD in an overwhelming majority of patients remain unclear. In this study, the whole coding...
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