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Genome-Wide Association Studies and Meta-Analyses for Congenital Heart Defects.
Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics - 1 Jun 2017
Agopian A J, Goldmuntz Elizabeth, Hakonarson Hakon, Sewda Anshuman, Taylor Deanne, Mitchell Laura E
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BACKGROUND: Maternal and inherited (ie, case) genetic factors likely contribute to the pathogenesis of congenital heart defects, but it is unclear whether individual common variants confer a large risk. METHODS AND RESULTS: To evaluate the relationship between individual common maternal/inherited genotypes and risk for heart defects, we conducted genome-wide association studies in 5 cohorts. Three cohorts were...
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