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Prevalence and spectrum of Nkx2.6 mutations in patients with congenital heart disease.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2014
Zhao Lan, Ni Shi-Hong, Liu Xing-Yuan, Wei Dong, Yuan Fang, Xu Lei, Xin-Li, Li Ruo-Gu, Qu Xin-Kai, Xu Ying-Jia, Fang Wei-Yi, Yang Yi-Qing, Qiu Xing-Biao
Abstract excerpt
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common form of birth defect and is the most prevalent non-infectious cause of infant death. A growing body of evidence documents that genetic defects are involved in the pathogenesis of CHD. However, CHD is a genetically heterogeneous disease and the genetic basis underpinning CHD in an overwhelming majority of patients remain unclear. In this study, the coding exons and...
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