Genetic basis for congenital heart disease: revisited: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

ME Pierpont, M Brueckner, WK Chung, V Garg… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
This review provides an updated summary of the state of our knowledge of the genetic
contributions to the pathogenesis of congenital heart disease. Since 2007, when the initial …

Maternal hyperglycemia and fetal cardiac development: Clinical impact and underlying mechanisms

M Basu, V Garg - Birth defects research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of birth defect and is both a
significant pediatric and adult health problem, in light of a growing population of survivors …

Whole-exome sequencing in adults with chronic kidney disease: a pilot study

S Lata, M Marasa, Y Li, DA Fasel… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
Background: The utility of whole-exome sequencing (WES) for the diagnosis and
management of adult-onset constitutional disorders has not been adequately studied …

A CRISPR-based screen for Hedgehog signaling provides insights into ciliary function and ciliopathies

DK Breslow, S Hoogendoorn, AR Kopp, DW Morgens… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Primary cilia organize Hedgehog signaling and shape embryonic development, and their
dysregulation is the unifying cause of ciliopathies. We conducted a functional genomic …

Role of epigenetics in cardiac development and congenital diseases

T Moore-Morris, PP van Vliet… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The heart is the first organ to be functional in the fetus. Heart formation is a complex
morphogenetic process regulated by both genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Congenital …

CHD3 helicase domain mutations cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome with macrocephaly and impaired speech and language

L Snijders Blok, J Rousseau, J Twist… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Chromatin remodeling is of crucial importance during brain development. Pathogenic
alterations of several chromatin remodeling ATPases have been implicated in …

A screening approach to identify clinically actionable variants causing congenital heart disease in exome data

JO Szot, H Cuny, GM Blue, DT Humphreys… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD)—structural abnormalities of the heart that
arise during embryonic development—is the most common inborn malformation, affecting≤ …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic study of severe fetal anomalies and discovery of GREB1L mutations in renal agenesis

S Boissel, C Fallet-Bianco, D Chitayat, V Kremer… - Genetics in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Fetal anomalies represent a poorly studied group of developmental disorders. Our
objective was to assess the impact of whole-exome sequencing (WES) on the investigation …

Next generation sequencing applications for cardiovascular disease

S Kalayinia, H Goodarzynejad, M Maleki… - Annals of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Human Genome Project (HGP), as the primary sequencing of the human
genome, lasted more than one decade to be completed using the traditional Sanger's …

Clinical significance of circulating microRNAs as markers in detecting and predicting congenital heart defects in children

Y Song, H Higgins, J Guo, K Harrison… - Journal of translational …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as novel biomarkers
for detecting cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we aimed to investigate the usefulness …