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Genome-wide association study of maternal and inherited loci for conotruncal heart defects.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Agopian A J, Mitchell Laura E, Glessner Joseph, Bhalla Angela D, Sewda Anshuman, Hakonarson Hakon, Goldmuntz Elizabeth
Abstract excerpt
Conotruncal and related heart defects (CTDs) are a group of serious and relatively common birth defects. Although both maternal and inherited genotypes are thought to play a role in the etiology of CTDs, few specific genetic risk factors have been identified. To determine whether common variants acting through the genotype of the mother (e.g. via an in utero effect) or the case are associated with CTDs, we...
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