Study identifies second gene associated with specific congenital heart defects

Friday, April 29, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

A gene known to be important in cardiac development has been newly associated with congenital heart malformations that result in obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract. These are the findings from a study conducted by Nationwide Children's Hospital and appearing in the journal Birth Defects Research Part A.

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