Research Roundup: Heart Disease Mutations, Depression and Huntington’s and More
Researchers with the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified three genetic variations within a family that combined cause heart disease in several siblings at a very young age. The researchers first encountered the family when Deepak Srivastava, a cardiologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and president of Gladstone, treated a two-month-old child with left ventricular noncompaction.
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