One in every 100 babies is born with a congenital heart disease (CHD), and CHD is the major cause of death in newborns – however the genetic cause of these developmental disorders is not fully understood, hindering the development of accurate pre-natal genetic testing.
Australian research confirms well-known congenital heart disease genes and has uncovered 35 new genes previously not linked to this developmental condition using a new computational/functional genomic pipeline approach.