Aorta measurements are heritable and influenced by bicuspid aortic valve

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Martin, Lisa J ^a,b   Hinton, Robert B ^a,b   Zhang, Xue ^a   Cripe, Linda H ^a,b   Benson, D Woodrow ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 84862292052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00061     Document Type: Article

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