Variants of the CFC1 gene in patients with laterality defects associated with congenital cardiac disease

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 268-274

  Selamet Tierney, Elif Seda ^a,c   Marans, Zvi ^a   Rutkin, Melissa B ^a   Chung, Wendy K ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Heterotaxy; Isomerism; Mutation; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN CFC1; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; LUNG ATRESIA; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MALE; PENETRANCE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BODY PATTERNING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34249065511     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951107000455     Document Type: Article

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