Article
Importance of microdeletions of chromosomal region 22q11 as a cause of selected malformations of the ventricular outflow tracts and aortic arch: a three-year prospective study.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Jul 1996
Webber S A, Hatchwell E, Barber J C, Daubeney P E, Crolla J A, Salmon A P, Keeton B R, Temple I K, Dennis N R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To assess the incidence of microdeletions of chromosomal region 22q11 in a population of infants coming to a regional pediatric cardiac center with selected abnormalities of the ventricular outflow tracts and aortic arch and, further, to provide phenotypic/genetic correlations to dete...
Topics
- Aorta, Thoracic
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- DiGeorge Syndrome
- Heart Defects, Congenital
- Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular
- Humans
- Hypocalcemia
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Karyotyping
- Phenotype
