Consanguinity and Congenital Heart Disease Susceptibility: Insights into Rare Genetic Variations in Saudi Arabia.

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Congenital heart disease (CHD) encompasses a wide range of structural defects of the heart and, in many cases, the factors that predispose an individual to disease are not well understood, highlighting the remarkable complexity of CHD etiology. Evidence of familial aggregation of CHD has been demonstrated in different communities and for different cardiac lesions. Consanguinity, particularly among first cousins,...

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