Monday, May 13, 2013

Spontaneous, Not Inherited, Gene Variants Tied to 10% Of Child Heart Defects

Spontaneous Gene Variants Tied to 10% of Child Heart Defects.  Business Week.  May 13, 2013.

Read the article and test your retention.

(1)  In the research involving newborns with serious heart defects where neither the parents or the sibling had cardiac illness, researchers found ______________ only in the affected children.

(2)  Study of these  variants may one day aid doctors in ________________________.

(3)  Differences in treatment outcomes might be due to differences in the ____________________.

(4)  The sick children were more likely to carry damaging mutations at two sites within a cellular pathway known to _______________>


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