… of these factors during heart development, in addition to the recent findings that suggest roles
for HAND1 and HAND2 in human congenital heart disease. Birth Defects Research (Part A)…

… links between abnormalities of cardiac development and the main congenital heart defects.
The … that potentially lead to cardiac malformations. A next step towards a better knowledge of …

… on our understanding of human heart development and disease. We illustrate how they …
of congenital heart defects, in addition to insights into the regulation of myocardial proliferation …

… of congenital heart defects has … of congenital heart defects was done inferentially by
combining information gained at autopsy with what was known about embryogenesis of the heart. …

… development of congenital cardiac diseases are investigated. They studied both genes and
… congenital heart disease. As expected, important genes in cardiac morphogenesis were …

… of research in early cardiovascular morphogenesis (1). For the … heart development, incorporate
results of novel research technology, and make a link to human congenital heart disease …

… It is, thus, no wonder that several embryologically oriented classifications of congenital heart
defects have a category of ‘‘cardiac looping defects’’ (eg, Ferencz et al., 1997; Conway et al.…

… heart forms a cardiac loop and is divided with the septa into individual cavities. Cardiac
morphogenesis involves numerous types of cells originating outside the initial cardiac crescent, …

… (VSDs), and atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs) are major contributors to the spectrum
of congenital heart disease (CHD). The incidence of congenital heart disease is an estimated …

… congenital heart malformations. The studies on the development of the primary ring strengthened
the notion that many of the congenital … animal models for congenital heart disease, our …