Genomic frontiers in congenital heart disease

SU Morton, D Quiat, JG Seidman… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The application of next-generation sequencing to study congenital heart disease (CHD) is
increasingly providing new insights into the causes and mechanisms of this prevalent birth …

The deployment of cell lineages that form the mammalian heart

SM Meilhac, ME Buckingham - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
The function of the mammalian heart depends on the interplay between different cardiac cell
types. The deployment of these cells, with precise spatiotemporal regulation, is also …

Spatially informed clustering, integration, and deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics with GraphST

Y Long, KS Ang, M Li, KLK Chong, R Sethi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics technologies generate gene expression profiles with spatial context,
requiring spatially informed analysis tools for three key tasks, spatial clustering, multisample …

Human pluripotent stem cell-derived atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes develop from distinct mesoderm populations

JH Lee, SI Protze, Z Laksman, PH Backx, GM Keller - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
The ability to direct the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to the different
cardiomyocyte subtypes is a prerequisite for modeling specific forms of cardiovascular …

Maturation of cardiac energy metabolism during perinatal development

J Piquereau, R Ventura-Clapier - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
As one of the highest energy consumer organ in mammals, the heart has to be provided with
a high amount of energy as soon as its first beats in utero. During the development of this …

Defining human cardiac transcription factor hierarchies using integrated single-cell heterogeneity analysis

JM Churko, P Garg, B Treutlein… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) have become a
powerful tool for human disease modeling and therapeutic testing. However, their use …

Transcriptomic profiling maps anatomically patterned subpopulations among single embryonic cardiac cells

G Li, A Xu, S Sim, JR Priest, X Tian, T Khan… - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
Embryonic gene expression intricately reflects anatomical context, developmental stage,
and cell type. To address whether the precise spatial origins of cardiac cells can be deduced …

Building the mammalian heart from two sources of myocardial cells

M Buckingham, S Meilhac, S Zaffran - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
Cardiogenesis is an exquisitely sensitive process. Any perturbation in the cells that
contribute to the building of the heart leads to cardiac malformations, which frequently result …

Cardiac chamber formation: development, genes, and evolution

AFM Moorman, VM Christoffels - Physiological reviews, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
Abstract Moorman, Antoon FM, and Vincent M. Christoffels. Cardiac Chamber Formation:
Development, Genes, and Evolution. Physiol Rev 83: 1223-1267, 2003; 10.1152/physrev …

Building and re-building the heart by cardiomyocyte proliferation

MJ Foglia, KD Poss - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
The adult human heart does not regenerate significant amounts of lost tissue after injury.
Rather than making new, functional muscle, human hearts are prone to scarring and …