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SUBMITTER: Bonachea EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5717758 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bonachea Elizabeth M EM Chang Sheng-Wei SW Zender Gloria G LaHaye Stephanie S Fitzgerald-Butt Sara S McBride Kim L KL Garg Vidu V
Pediatric research 20140505 2
<h4>Background</h4>Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common type of congenital heart disease (CHD) and has a proposed genetic etiology. BAV is categorized by cusp fusion, with right-left (R-L) cusp fusion being associated with additional CHD, and right-noncoronary cusp (R-NC) fusion being associated with aortic valve dysfunction. Loss of murine Gata5, which encodes a cardiac transcription factor, results in a partially penetrant R-NC BAV, and we hypothesize that mutations in GATA5 are asso ...[more]