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Maternal iron deficiency perturbs embryonic cardiovascular development
2020-08-03
Abstract excerpt
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of birth defect, with a global prevalence of 0.9% of live births 1 . Most research in the last 30 years has focused on finding genetic causes of CHD. However, despite the association of over 100 genes with CHD, mutations in these genes only explain ~30% of cases 2 . Many of the remaining cases of CHD are caused by in utero exposure to environmental factors...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0d9f3200-298a-5c4b-901a-4b2f60838c27
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.03.230615