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Familial congenital heart disease, progressive atrioventricular block and the cardiac homeobox transcription factor gene NKX2.5:

identification of a novel mutation

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  1. Otto-Heubner-Centrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

    Kai König MD, Joachim C. Will, Felix Berger & Dominik Müller

  2. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

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König, K., Will, J.C., Berger, F. et al. Familial congenital heart disease, progressive atrioventricular block and the cardiac homeobox transcription factor gene NKX2.5:. Clin Res Cardiol 95, 499–503 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-006-0412-9

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