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Structural heart defects associated with ETB mutation, a cause of Hirschsprung disease.
BMC cardiovascular disorders - 2 Oct 2021
Chen Ko-Chin, Chen Ko-Chien, Song Zan-Min, Croaker Geoffrey D
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BACKGROUND: HSCR, a colonic neurocristopathy affecting 1/5000 births, is suggested to associate with cardiac septal defects and conotruncal malformations. However, we question subtle cardiac changes maybe more commonly present due to multi-regulations by HSCR candidate genes, in this instance, ETB. To investigate, we compared the cardiac morphology and quantitative measurements of sl/sl rat to those of the...
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