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Rare copy number variants in patients with congenital conotruncal heart defects.
Birth defects research - 1 Mar 2017
Xie Hongbo M, Werner Petra, Stambolian Dwight, Bailey-Wilson Joan E, Hakonarson Hakon, White Peter S, Taylor Deanne M, Goldmuntz Elizabeth
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BACKGROUND: Previous studies using different cardiac phenotypes, technologies and designs suggest a burden of large, rare or de novo copy number variants (CNVs) in subjects with congenital heart defects. We sought to identify disease-related CNVs, candidate genes, and functional pathways in a large number of cases with conotruncal and related defects that carried no known genetic syndrome. METHODS: Cases and...
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