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Some Epidemiological and Genetic Aspects of Congenital Heart Diseases*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

N. Freire-Maia
N. Freire-Maia*
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
*
Department of Genetics, Federal University, Caixa Postal AA, 80000 Curitiba, Pr, Brazil

Abstract

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This paper presents a general view on congenital malformations and a summary of some anatomic, clinical, epidemiological and genetic aspects of congenital heart diseases. Some “recommendations” for research are also briefly mentioned.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 24 , Issue 1-2 , January 1975 , pp. 151 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1975

Footnotes

*

This paper includes “The epidemiology of congenital cardiovascular malformations”, Human Hered., 21: 209-215, by N. Freire-Maia and B. Arce-Gomez (1971). Its present form has been written mostly at the World Health Organization, where the author stayed as a consultant during a few months, in 1972.

Our Department of Genetics receives grants from the Conselho National de Pesquisas, the World Health Organization, CAPES, the Bamerindus Foundation and the Conselho de Ensino e Pesquisas da UFPr.

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