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 …

Drosophila Heart as a Model for Cardiac Development and Diseases

A Souidi, K Jagla - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Drosophila heart, also referred to as the dorsal vessel, pumps the insect blood, the
hemolymph. The bilateral heart primordia develop from the most dorsally located …

Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants in 2,871 congenital heart disease probands

SC Jin, J Homsy, S Zaidi, Q Lu, S Morton… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality from birth defects. Here,
exome sequencing of a single cohort of 2,871 CHD probands, including 2,645 parent …

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≤ …

The complex activities of the SET1/MLL complex core subunits in development and disease

H Jiang - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2020 - Elsevier
In mammalian cells, the SET1/MLL complexes are the main writers of the H3K4 methyl mark
that is associated with active gene expression. The activities of these complexes are …

Single-cell profiling of the developing embryonic heart in Drosophila

X Huang, Y Fu, H Lee, Y Zhao, W Yang… - …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Drosophila is an important model for studying heart development and disease. Yet, single-
cell transcriptomic data of its developing heart have not been performed. Here, we report …

Integrating imaging and omics: computational methods and challenges

JK Hériché, S Alexander… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Fluorescence microscopy imaging has long been complementary to DNA sequencing-and
mass spectrometry–based omics in biomedical research, but these approaches are now …

WDR5 stabilizes actin architecture to promote multiciliated cell formation

SS Kulkarni, JN Griffin, PP Date, KF Liem, MK Khokha - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
The actin cytoskeleton is critical to shape cells and pattern intracellular organelles, which
collectively drives tissue morphogenesis. In multiciliated cells (MCCs), apical actin drives …

An enhancer cluster controls gene activity and topology of the SCN5A-SCN10A locus in vivo

JCK Man, RA Mohan, M Boogaard… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mutations and variations in and around SCN5A, encoding the major cardiac sodium
channel, influence impulse conduction and are associated with a broad spectrum of …

In vivo and in vitro genetic models of congenital heart disease

U Majumdar, J Yasuhara… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2021 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Congenital cardiovascular malformations represent the most common type of birth defect
and encompass a spectrum of anomalies that range from mild to severe. The etiology of …