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Novel mutations of the SRF gene in Chinese sporadic conotruncal heart defect patients.
BMC medical genetics - 7 May 2020
Mengmeng Xu, Yuejuan Xu, Sun Chen, Yanan Lu, Fen Li, Kun Sun
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BACKGROUND: Conotruncal heart defects (CTDs) are a group of congenital heart malformations that cause anomalies of cardiac outflow tracts. In the past few decades, many genes related to CTDs have been reported. Serum response factor (SRF) is a ubiquitous nuclear protein that acts as transcription factor, and SRF was found to be a critical factor in heart development and to be strongly expressed in the myocardium...
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