Abstract
Background- Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the commonest cyanotic form of congenital heart disease. In 80% of cases, TOF behaves as a complex genetic condition exhibiting significant heritability. As yet, no common genetic variants influencing TOF risk have been robustly identified. Methods and Results- Two hundred and seven haplotype-tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms in 22 candidate genes were genotyped in a test cohort comprising 362 nonsyndromic British white patients with TOF together with 717 unaffected parents of patients and 183 unrelated healthy controls. Single nucleotide polymorphisms with suggestive evidence of association in the test cohort (P
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 287-292 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2012 |
Keywords
- Association studies
- Congenital
- Genetics
- PTPN11
- Tetralogy of Fallot