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Mutational analysis of the PITX2 coding region revealed no common cause for transposition of the great arteries (dTGA)

BACKGROUND: PITX2 is a bicoid-related homeodomain transcription factor that plays an important role in asymmetric cardiogenesis. Loss of function experiments in mice cause severe heart malformations, including transposition of the great arteries (TGA). TGA accounts for 5–7% of all congenital heart d...

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Autores principales: Muncke, Nadja, Niesler, Beate, Roeth, Ralph, Schön, Karin, Rüdiger, Heinz-Juergen, Goldmuntz, Elizabeth, Goodship, Judith, Rappold, Gudrun
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1142516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15890066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-6-20