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Genetic variants at 10p11 confer risk of Tetralogy of Fallot in Chinese of Nanjing.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Xu Jing, Lin Yuan, Si Linjie, Jin Guangfu, Dai Juncheng, Wang Cheng, Chen Jiaping, Da Min, Hu Yuanli, Yi Chenlong, Hu Zhibin, Shen Hongbing, Mo Xuming, Chen Yijiang, Wang Xiaowei
Abstract excerpt
A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) has identified a new subset of susceptibility loci of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), one form of cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD), on chromosomes 10p11, 10p14, 12q24, 13q31, 15q13 and 16q12 in Europeans. In the current study, we conducted a case-control study in a Chinese population including 1,010 CHD cases [atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect...
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