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Functional dissection of human cardiac enhancers and noncoding de novo variants in congenital heart disease.
Nature genetics - 1 Mar 2024
Xiao Feng, Zhang Xiaoran, Morton Sarah U, Kim Seong Won, Fan Youfei, Gorham Joshua M, Zhang Huan, Berkson Paul J, Mazumdar Neil, Cao Yangpo, Chen Jian, Hagen Jacob, Liu Xujie, Zhou Pingzhu, Richter Felix, Shen Yufeng, Ward Tarsha, Gelb Bruce D, Seidman Jonathan G, Seidman Christine E, Pu William T
Abstract excerpt
Rare coding mutations cause ∼45% of congenital heart disease (CHD). Noncoding mutations that perturb cis-regulatory elements (CREs) likely contribute to the remaining cases, but their identification has been problematic. Using a lentiviral massively parallel reporter assay (lentiMPRA) in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs), we functionally evaluated 6,590 noncoding de novo...
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