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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 25, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(22):2701-2702; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm479
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Catch me if you can: tracking down the genetic origins of congenital heart disease

Emmanuelle Lemyre1 and Gregor Andelfinger2,*

1 Medical Genetics Division, Sainte Justine Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada
2 Service of Cardiology, Sainte Justine Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 514 345 4931 ext 3244; fax: +1 514 345 4896. E-mail address: gregor.andelfinger@umontreal.ca

This editorial refers to ‘Submicroscopic chromosomal imbalances detected by array-CGH are a frequent cause of congenital heart defects in selected patients’ by B. Thienpont et al., on page 2778

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Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the major cause of death in infants under 1 year of age. CHD kills more children than cancer and accounts for 25% of all birth defects, the single largest category of malformations.1 One newborn in 100 has CHD, and 1 newborn in 1000 will need surgery for CHD. Despite the impressive progress which has been made in deciphering the molecular events governing cardiogenesis, only a minority of heart defects are amenable to routine genetic diagnosis at the present time. Thus, the mechanism of disease remains . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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