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The Role of De Novo Variants in Patients with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.
Genes - 11 Sept 2021
Bendixen Charlotte, Reutter Heiko
Abstract excerpt
The genetic etiology of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a common and severe birth defect, is still incompletely understood. Chromosomal aneuploidies, copy number variations (CNVs), and variants in a large panel of CDH-associated genes, both de novo and inherited, have been described. Due to impaired reproductive fitness, especially of syndromic CDH patients, and still significant mortality rates, the...
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