Researchers from Department of Physiology Describe Findings in Heart Disease

2012 AUG 3 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Current study results on Heart Disease have been published. According to news reporting originating in Oxford, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, researchers stated "Nkx2.5 is one of the most widely studied cardiac-specific transcription factors, conserved from flies to man, with multiple essential roles in both the developing and adult heart. Specific dominant mutations in NKX2.5 have been identified in adult congenital heart disease patients presenting with conduction system anomalies and recent genome-wide association studies implicate the NKX2.5 locus, as causative for lethal...

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