Various Genes Involved in Congenital Heart Disease
by Angela Mohan on
December 15, 2020 at 3:01 PM
Understanding how a broad network of genes and proteins go awry in a subset of congenital heart diseases, could help prevent and treat heart defects. The insights have been provided by the team of researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF).
"We now have a better understanding of what genes are improperly deployed in some cases of congenital heart disease," says Benoit Bruneau, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a senior author of the new study. "Eventually, this might help us get a handle on how to modulate genetic networks to prevent or treat the disease."