Advances in the molecular genetics of congenital structural heart disease

Genetic Testing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-172

  Mah, Caroline S ^a   Vaughan, Carl J ^a   Basson, Craig T ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALAGILLE SYNDROME; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; CARNEY COMPLEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ELLIS VAN CREVELD SYNDROME; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOLT ORAM SYNDROME; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOONAN SYNDROME; REVIEW;

EID: 0032764442     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.1999.3.157     Document Type: Review

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