Mutations in VEGFA are associated with congenital left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 396, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 483-488

  Zhao, Wu ^a   Wang, Jian ^b   Shen, Jie ^c   Sun, Kun ^a   Zhu, Junxue ^a   Yu, Tingting ^b   Ji, Wei ^a   Chen, Yiwei ^a   Fu, Qihua ^b   Li, Fen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHANGHAI CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Congenital; Heart defects; Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction; Mutation; Vascular endothelial growth factor A

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; GUANINE; THREONINE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; STOP CODON;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CODON, NONSENSE; EXONS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 77952742566     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.04.124     Document Type: Article

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