Title |
Genome-wide linkage analysis of congenital heart defects using MOD score analysis identifies two novel loci
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Published in |
BMC Genomic Data, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2156-14-44 |
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Authors |
Antònia Flaquer, Clemens Baumbach, Estefania Piñero, Fernando García Algas, María Angeles de la Fuente Sanchez, Jordi Rosell, Jorge Toquero, Luis Alonso-Pulpon, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Konstantin Strauch, Damian Heine-Suñer |
Abstract |
Congenital heart defects (CHD) is the most common cause of death from a congenital structure abnormality in newborns and is often associated with fetal loss. There are many types of CHD. Human genetic studies have identified genes that are responsible for the inheritance of a particular type of CHD and for some types of CHD previously thought to be sporadic. However, occasionally different members of the same family might have anatomically distinct defects - for instance, one member with atrial septal defect, one with tetralogy of Fallot, and one with ventricular septal defect. Our objective is to identify susceptibility loci for CHD in families affected by distinct defects. The occurrence of these apparently discordant clinical phenotypes within one family might hint at a genetic framework common to most types of CHD. |
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