NR2F2 loss‑of‑function mutation is responsible for congenital bicuspid aortic valve

  • Authors:
    • Juan Wang
    • Pradhan Abhinav
    • Ying‑Jia Xu
    • Ruo‑Gu Li
    • Min Zhang
    • Xing‑Biao Qiu
    • Ruo‑Min Di
    • Qi Qiao
    • Xiu‑Mei Li
    • Ri‑Tai Huang
    • Song Xue
    • Yi‑Qing Yang
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  • Published online on: January 31, 2019     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2019.4087
  • Pages: 1839-1846
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Abstract

Congenital bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) represents the most common type of cardiac birth defect affecting 0.4‑2% of the general population, and accounts for a markedly increased incidence of life‑threatening complications, including valvulopathy and aortopathy. Accumulating evidence has demonstrated the genetic basis of BAV. However, the genetic basis for BAV in the majority of cases remains to be elucidated. In the present study, the coding regions and splicing donors/acceptors of the nuclear receptor subfamily 2 group F member 2 (NR2F2) gene, which encodes a transcription factor essential for proper cardiovascular development, were sequenced in 176 unrelated cases of congenital BAV. The available family members of the proband carrying an identified NR2F2 mutation and 280 unrelated, sex‑ and ethnicity‑matched healthy individuals as controls were additionally genotyped for NR2F2. The functional effect of the mutation was characterized using a dual‑luciferase reporter assay system. As a result, a novel heterozygous NR2F2 mutation, NM_021005.3: c.288C>A; p.(Cys96*), was identified in a family with BAV, which was transmitted in an autosomal dominant mode with complete penetrance. The nonsense mutation was absent from the 560 control chromosomes. Functional analysis identified that the mutant NR2F2 protein had no transcriptional activity. Furthermore, the mutation disrupted the synergistic transcriptional activation between NR2F2 and transcription factor GATA‑4, another transcription factor that is associated with BAV. These findings suggested NR2F2 as a novel susceptibility gene of human BAV, which reveals a novel molecular pathogenesis underpinning BAV.

Introduction

As the most common cardiac developmental malformation in humans, congenital bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) affects 0.5-2% of the Western population (1) and ~0.4% of the Chinese population (2), and has a higher incidence in patients with other congenital cardiac abnormalities (3,4). Although it is commonly diagnosed by echocardiography in asymptomatic cases (1), approximately one-third of all BAV cases develop various complications in their lifetime, encompassing aortic stenosis, regurgitation, dilatation, dissection, aneurysm and rupture, in addition to infective endocarditis, hypoplastic left ventricle, ventricular fibrosis, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (5-9). BAV is responsible for 70-85% of cases of aortic stenosis in children and >50% of cases of aortic stenosis in adults (10). Furthermore, aortic dilatation occurs in 30-70% of patients with BAV, and aortic valve dysfunction occurs in ≤47% of patients with BAV (11). BAV is also associated with an eight-fold increased risk of aortic dissection, and over a 25-year period, the risks for aortic valve replacement, aortic aneurysm occurrence and aortic surgery are 53, 26 and 25%, respectively (10). Therefore, BAV may lead to severe health complications when compared with all other congenital heart defects combined (10,11). Despite important clinical significance, the etiologies underlying BAV remain undetermined.

During fetal development, cardiac valvular morphogenesis is understood to begin with the formation of endocardial cushions, the precursors to mature cardiac valves. It subsequently undergoes a complex developmental process that orchestrates the coordination of cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, adhesion and apoptosis; genetic and environmental pathogenic factors may disturb this process, contributing to abnormal valvulogenesis and the pathogenesis of BAV (10-13). However, accumulating evidence suggests the strong genetic basis of BAV, particularly for familial BAV, and mutations in >10 genes, encompassing those coding for extracellular matrix proteins, signaling molecules and cardiac transcription factors, including GATA transcription factors GATA4-6 and homeobox protein NKX2-5, which are associated with BAV in humans (13-24). As another cardiac core transcription factor, nuclear receptor subfamily 2 group F member 2 (NR2F2) is expressed at high levels in the embryonic heart and aorta, and serves an essential role in cardiac and valvular morphogenesis in vertebrates (25,26). Furthermore, the expression and functional profile of NR2F2 overlap at least partially with those of the well-established BAV-associated genes GATA4, GATA5 and NKX2-5 during embryonic cardio-genesis (27-29). Pathogenic mutations in NR2F2, GATA4-6 and NKX2-5 have been reported to cause similar cardiovascular developmental anomalies in animals and humans, including defects in the cardiac outflow tract, septum and endocardial cushion (30-40). These findings suggest NR2F2 as a preferred candidate gene of human BAV and provide a theoretical basis for screening of the gene. The present study aimed to identify novel NR2F2 mutations associated BAV and the underlying mechanism by which mutant NR2F2 contributes to BAV.

Materials and methods

Study subjects

Between January 2015 and February 2018, a study cohort of 176 unrelated cases diagnosed with BAV was enlisted from the Chinese Han-ethnic population. The available relatives of the index patient carrying an identified NR2F2 mutation were additionally recruited. A control cohort of 280 unrelated healthy subjects without BAV (170 men and 110 women, with a mean age of 45±10 years), matched with patients with BAV for age, sex and ethnicity, was enrolled from the same geographical area. The sample size was estimated according to the consensus that the prevalence of the genetic mutation is <1.0% among the general population, with 95% confidence and a margin of error of <0.02. The individuals recruited to the present study underwent comprehensive clinical appraisal, encompassing familial and medical histories, detailed physical examination, and two-dimensional echocardiography. In each patient, a diagnosis of BAV was made according to echocardiographic images and/or surgical records of aortic valve replacement surgery (2). Cases with recognized chromosomal abnormalities or other syndromes, including Turner syndrome and DiGeorge syndrome, were excluded from the investigation at the time of enrollment. The present study was conducted in conformity with the ethical principles described by the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Dongfang Hospital, Tongji University (Shanghai, China). Whole peripheral venous blood samples and clinical data were collected from the study subjects subsequent to providing written informed consent to participate in the investigation.

Mutational analysis of NR2F2

Genomic DNA samples were isolated from venous blood leukocytes with the QIAamp DNA Blood Mini kit (Qiagen GmbH, Hilden, Germany) following the manufacturer’s manual. Direct polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-sequencing and sequence analysis of the coding regions and splicing donors/acceptors of the NR2F2 gene were performed in the patients with BAV and control individuals. PCR and the procedures of sequencing analysis were conducted as previously described (31). The identified sequence variation was retrieved in databases as previously described (41-43) to confirm its novelty. The databases included the single nucleotide polymorphism database (https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP), the exome aggregation consortium database version 0.3.1 (http://exac.broadinstitute.org/), the human gene mutation database (http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php), the 1000 genome project database (http://www.internationalge-nome.org/) and the exome variant server database version 2.0 (http://evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS).

Plasmids and site-targeted mutagenesis

The cDNAs were prepared from human heart samples as previously described (44-47). The wild-type NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 plasmid expressing human NR2F2 was constructed as previously reported (31). The mutation detected in patients with BAV was introduced into the wild-type NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 plasmid by site-directed mutagenesis with the QuickChange II XL Site-Directed Mutagenesis kit (Stratagene; Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) with a complementary pair of primers (forward, 5′-CGGCCA GTTCAC GTG AGA GGGCTG CAA GAG C-3′; reverse, 5′-GCT CTT GCA GCC CTC TCA CGT GAA CTG GCC G-3′) following the manufacturer’s protocol, and was verified by direct PCR sequencing. The expression plasmid GATA4-pSSRa, the apolipoprotein B (APOB) promoter-driven firefly luciferase (APOB-luc) reporter plasmid and the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) promoter-driven firefly luciferase reporter plasmid (ANF-luc) used in the present study, were as previously described (31).

Cell culture, transient transfection and luciferase assay

COS-7 and 293 cells, the two cell lines used most in previous functional studies of NR2F2, were grown in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) with 10% fetal bovine serum (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) in addition to 100 µg/ml streptomycin (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) and 100 U/ml penicillin (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) in an incubator with an atmosphere of 5% CO2 at 37°C. The cells were seeded at a density of 1×105 cells/well in 12-well plates 24 h prior to transfection with various plasmids using SuperFect transfection reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Additionally, as an internal control to normalize the transfection efficiency, the pGL4.75 plasmid (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA) expressing Renilla luciferase was co-transfected into the cells. Cellular transfection experiments with various plasmids were performed as previously described (31). The cells were cultured at 37°C and lysed 36 h after transient transfection. The luciferase activity of the cellular lysates was measured using the Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay system (Promega Corporation) following the manufacturer’s protocol. The transcriptional activity of the target gene promoters is presented as the fold activation of firefly luciferase relative to Renilla luciferase. For each plasmid, three independent transient transfection experiments were completed in triplicate and the results are presented as the mean ± standard deviation.

Statistical analysis

Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS for Windows statistical software package version 19.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Continuous variables, including age, body mass index and the transcriptional activity of the target gene promoters, are presented as the mean ± standard deviation. Categorical variables, including sex, ethnicity, chronic heart failure, family history of BAV, classification of BAV morphologies and incidence of various BAV-associated clinical phenotypes, are presented as a number and percentage. Categorical variables were compared using Pearson’s χ2 test (for sex and ethnicity) or Fisher’s exact test (for chronic heart failure and family history of BAV), where appropriate. The comparison of continuous variables between two groups was conducted with Student’s unpaired t-test. One-way analysis of variance, followed by Fisher’s protected least-squares difference post hoc test, was used when multiple groups were compared. A two-sided P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Clinical and valvular features of the present study participants

In the present study, 176 unrelated patients with BAV were clinically investigated, in addition to 280 unrelated healthy controls without BAV. The cases were matched with control subjects for ethnicity, sex and age. No significant difference in body mass index was found between the patient and control groups (23±3, vs. 23±4, P=0.99998); whereas significant differences in the incidence of heart failure and family history of BAV were found between the two groups (126/176, vs. 0/280, P<0.00001 for heart failure; 39/176, vs. 0/280, P<0.00001 for family history of BAV). All cases had echocardiogram-documented BAV. Of the BAV group, ~66% (n=116), 33% (n=58) and 1% (n=2) had fusion of the left and right coronary, right and noncoronary, and left and noncoronary cusps, respectively. Coexistent cardiovascular malformations were present in ~9% of cases of BAV, and these were predominantly cardiac septal defects. The control subjects’ echocardiograms demonstrated normal cardiac images without evidence of structural cardiac deformities. The baseline clinical and valvular characteristics of the 176 unrelated BAV cases are summarized in Table I.

Table I

Baseline clinical and valvular characteristics of the 176 cases with congenital BAV.

Table I

Baseline clinical and valvular characteristics of the 176 cases with congenital BAV.

VariablePatient group (n=176)Control group (n=280)P-value
Age (years)45±1245±14P>0.9999
Male105 (60)164 (59%)P=0.8182
BMI (kg/m2)23±323±4P>0.9999
Chronic heart failure (NYHA class ≥II)126 (72)0 (0)P<0.0001
Positive family history of BAV39 (22)0 (0)P<0.0001
Classification of BAV morphology 
 R-L116 (66)NANA
 R-NC58 (33)NANA
 L-NC2 (1)NANA
 Aortic regurgitation103 (59)NANA
 Mild46 (26)NANA
 Moderate38 (22)NANA
 Severe19 (11)NANA
 Aortic stenosis65 (37)NANA
 Mild 30 (17)NANA
 Moderate25 (14)NANA
 Severe10 (6)NANA
 Valve calcification71 (40)NANA
 Other concomitant congenital heart defectsa16 (9)NANA
 Surgery or catheter-based therapy111 (63)NANA

{ label (or @symbol) needed for fn[@id='tfn1-ijmm-43-04-1839'] } Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables or as number (%) for categorical variables. Continuous variables (age and BMI) between the patient and control groups were compared using Student’s unpaired t-test. Categorical variables of males between the patient and control groups was compared using Pearson’s χ2 test, whereas other categorical variables (chronic heart failure and positive family history of BAV) between the two groups were compared using Fisher’s exact test.

a Seven patients had ventricular septal defect, four had atrial septal defect, two had coarctation of the aorta, two had patent ductus arteriosus, and one had aortic stenosis. BAV, bicuspid aortic valve; BMI, body mass index; L-NC, fusion of left coronary cusp and non-coronary cusp; NA, not applicable or available; NYHA, New York Heart Association; R-L, fusion of right coronary cusp and left coronary cusp; R-NC, fusion of right coronary cusp and non-coronary cusp.

Identification of a novel NR2F2 mutation

Through mutational analysis of the coding exons and splicing signal sequences of the NR2F2 gene in 176 unrelated cases of BAV, a heterozygous mutation was identified in an index patient aged 54 years. Specifically, a substitution of adenine (A) for cytosine (C) at the third nucleotide of codon 96 (NM_021005.3: c.288C>A), predicting alteration of the codon coding for cysteine (Cys) at amino acid position 96 to a premature stop codon, p.(Cys96*), was identified in a male with BAV, who was positive for a family history of BAV. The DNA sequence chromatograms showing the heterozygous c.288C>A mutation of NR2F2 and its homozygous wild-type sequence are presented in Fig. 1A. The schematic drawings denoting the principal structural domains of wild-type and Cys96*-mutant NR2F2 proteins, in addition to the location of the mutation detected in the present investigation, are presented in Fig. 1B. The identified mutation was not observed in the 280 control individuals, nor was it reported in the databases described elsewhere (41-43). Mutational screening of the available relatives of the index patient revealed that the nonsense mutation was present in all affected relatives; however, this was absent in the unaffected relatives. Genetic analysis of the lineage of the proband identified that the nonsense mutation co-segregated with BAV, which was transmitted in an autosomal dominant pattern in the family, with complete penetrance. In this family, all family members affected with BAV had fusion of the right and left coronary aortic valve cusps, and two of the six patients (II-3 and III-4) had aortic stenosis accompanied with aortic regurgitation. A total of two family members (III-1 and IV-1) of the proband had ventricular septal defect (VSD) in addition to BAV. The pedigree structure of the proband is presented in Fig. 1C. The phenotypic features and mutational status of the affected living relatives of the proband are presented in Table II. Notably, this was the only mutation detected in the present study, and no other sequence variations in NR2F2 were detected.

Table II

Phenotypic features and status of the NR2F2 mutation of the living affected family members.

Table II

Phenotypic features and status of the NR2F2 mutation of the living affected family members.

IdentitySexAge (years)PhenotypeGenotype
Congenital heart defectNR2F2 mutation
Family 1 Cys96*
 II-3M54BAV (R-L)+/−
 III-1M32BAV (R-L), VSD+/−
 III-4M30BAV (R-L)+/−
 III-9F25BAV (R-L)+/−
 IV-1M6BAV (R-L), VSD+/−
 IV-3F4BAV (R-L)+/−

[i] NR2F2, nuclear receptor subfamily 2 group F member 2; BAV, bicuspid aortic valve; F, female; M, male; R-L, fusion of right coronary cusp and left coronary cusp; VSD, ventricular septal defect; +/−, heterozygote.

Absence of transcriptional activation by the mutant NR2F2 protein

As presented in Fig. 2, 0.2 µg of wild-type NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 plasmid and 0.2 µg of Cys96*-mutant NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 plasmid transactivated the APOB promoter in 293 cells by ~13- and ~1-fold, respectively. When 0.1 µg of wild-type NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 plasmid was utilized alone or in combination with 0.1 µg of Cys96*-mutant NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 plasmid, the resultant transactivation of the APOB promoter in COS-7 cells was ~7- and ~6-fold, respectively. These functional results suggest that the Cys96*-mutant NR2F2 protein has no transcriptional activity.

Synergistic transactivation between NR2F2 and GATA4 disrupted by the mutation

As presented in Fig. 3, 0.1 µg of wild-type NR2F2-pcDNA3.1, 0.1 µg of Cys96*-mutant NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 or 0.1 µg of GATA4-pSSRa transactivated the ANF promoter in COS-7 cells by ~2-, ~1- and ~4-fold, respectively. In the presence of 0.1 µg of GATA4-pSSRa, the use of 0.1 µg of wild-type NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 and 0.1 µg of Cys96*-mutant NR2F2-pcDNA3.1 transactivated the ANF promoter in 293 cells by ~26- and ~4-fold, respectively, suggesting that the mutation disrupts the synergistic transcriptional activation between NR2F2 and GATA4.

Discussion

In the present study, a novel heterozygous mutation in the NR2F2 gene, NM_021005.3: c.288C>A; p.(Cys96*), was identified in a family affected with congenital BAV. The truncating mutation, which co-segregated with BAV in the family, was absent from the 560 control chromosomes. Biological measurements revealed that the Cys96*-mutant NR2F2 protein lost transactivational function. In addition, the nonsense mutation disrupted the synergistic transactivation between NR2F2 and GATA4, another cardiac core transcription factor that has been causally linked to BAV in humans (11,18). Therefore, it is likely that the genetic defect of NR2F2 contributes to BAV in this family.

In humans, NR2F2 is located on chromosome 15q26.2, coding for a nuclear receptor protein with 414 amino acids, which is key to proper cardiovascular morphogenesis (25,26). As shown in Fig. 1B, as a transcription factor of the nuclear receptor superfamily, NR2F2 has the typical structure of a nuclear receptor, possessing two ligand-independent transcriptional activation domains, one DNA-binding domain and one ligand-binding domain (48). The ligand-independent transcriptional activation domain at the amino terminus of the nuclear receptor is associated with ligand-independent activation, whereas the ligand-binding domain of the nuclear receptor, which contains the ligand-independent transcriptional activation domain close to the carboxyl terminus, is responsible for ligand recognition, ligand-dependent activation and receptor dimerization; the conformational state of this ligand-independent transcriptional activation domain determines the transcriptional activity of the nuclear receptor, and the DNA-binding domain is required for DNA binding, dimerization and interactions with co-factors (48). In the present study, the mutation identified in cases afflicted with BAV was anticipated to generate a truncated NR2F2 protein with only the ligand-independent transcriptional activation domain at the amino terminus and a small region of the DNA-binding domain; and this was expected to eliminate the transactivation of its target genes, encompassing APOB and ANF (30,49). As hypothesized, the functional assays showed that the Cys96*-mutant NR2F2 protein failed to transactivate the APOB and ANF promoters, alone or synergistically with GATA4. These data suggested that NR2F2 haploinsufficiency caused by the nonsense mutation may be a molecular mechanism underlying BAV.

Notably, the mutation was firstly identified in only one case among 176 patients, suggesting it is not a common mutation. However, the mutation was identified in all affected members of a family, but was absent in unaffected family members and the 280 controls. Furthermore, the mutation has not been reported previously, and functional analysis revealed that the mutation nullified the transcription activity of NR2F2 alone or in synergy with GATA4. These are important novel findings. However, western blot analysis can show a truncated size of NR2F2, which may be more convincing in supporting the conclusion.

An association between genetically compromised NR2F2 and enhanced susceptibility to BAV may be attributable to abnormal cardiac valvular morphogenesis. In mice, the NR2F2 protein was shown to be expressed at high levels in the atria and ventricles throughout embryo-genesis. Particularly by E9.5, an abundant expression of NR2F2 was observed in the endocardium and epicardium of the ventricle, the endocardium of the atrioventricular cushion, and the endocardium and myocardium of the atrium (25,26). In the mice, knockout of the Nr2f2 gene resulted in embryonic death due to defects in angiogenesis and cardiogenesis (25). In mice with endothelial-specific disruption of Nr2f2, multiple cardiovascular morphogenic anomalies occurred, encompassing atrioventricular septal defect, hypoplastic ventricles and hypoplasia of endocardial cushions (26). The endocardial cushion hypoplasia caused by Nr2f2 deficiency was ascribed to the decreased growth and survival of mesenchymal cells from the atrioventricular cushion and impaired epithelial-mesenchymal transformation in the endocardium (26). Notably, the impairment in endocardial epithelial-mesenchymal transformation was accompanied by the downregulation of snail family transcriptional repressor 1, a master regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (26). In humans, NR2F2 has been shown to be expressed at a high level in the embryonic heart, encompassing the atria, aorta and coronary vessels, and pathogenic mutations in the NR2F2 gene have been reported to cause various cardiovascular abnormalities, including atrioventricular septal defect, VSD, double outlet right ventricle, coarctation of the aorta, aortic stenosis, tetralogy of Fallot and hypoplastic left heart syndrome (30-33). In the present study, a novel NR2F2 loss-of-function mutation was associated with BAV, in addition to VSD, which expands on the NR2F2-associated phenotypic spectrum. Collectively, the present data provided novel insight into the pivotal role of NR2F2 in cardiovascular development, particularly in the development of the endocardium for endocardial epithelial-mesenchymal transformation, which is crucial for normal valve formation.

In conclusion, the present study identified NR2F2 as a novel susceptibility gene for BAV in humans, providing novel insight into the genetic mechanism underlying BAV, and indicating potential significance for genetic counseling and individualized treatment for cases affected with BAV.

Acknowledgments

Not applicable.

Funding

The present study was financially supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 81641014, 81470372, 81400244, 81370400 and 81271927), the Clinical Research Plan of SHDC, Shanghai, China (grant no. 16CR3005A), the Medicine Guided Program of Shanghai, China (grant no. 17411971000), the Experimental Animal Program of Shanghai, China (grant no. 17140902400) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The funding bodies had no involvement in the design of the study, collection, analysis or interpretation of data, or manuscript writing.

Availability of data and materials

All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.

Authors’ contributions

JW and YQY conceived and designed the study, and were major contributors in writing the manuscript. JW, PA, YJX, RGL, MZ, XBQ, RMD, QQ, XML, RTH and SX analyzed and interpreted the patient data. JW, PA, YJX and YQY performed the molecular and biochemical experiments. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

This study was performed in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. The study protocol was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, China. The study subjects provided written informed consent to participate in the study.

Patient consent for publication

The patients provided written informed consent for the publication of any associated data.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Wang J, Abhinav P, Xu YJ, Li RG, Zhang M, Qiu XB, Di RM, Qiao Q, Li XM, Huang RT, Huang RT, et al: NR2F2 loss‑of‑function mutation is responsible for congenital bicuspid aortic valve. Int J Mol Med 43: 1839-1846, 2019
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Wang, J., Abhinav, P., Xu, Y., Li, R., Zhang, M., Qiu, X. ... Yang, Y. (2019). NR2F2 loss‑of‑function mutation is responsible for congenital bicuspid aortic valve. International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 43, 1839-1846. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2019.4087
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Wang, J., Abhinav, P., Xu, Y., Li, R., Zhang, M., Qiu, X., Di, R., Qiao, Q., Li, X., Huang, R., Xue, S., Yang, Y."NR2F2 loss‑of‑function mutation is responsible for congenital bicuspid aortic valve". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 43.4 (2019): 1839-1846.
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Wang, J., Abhinav, P., Xu, Y., Li, R., Zhang, M., Qiu, X., Di, R., Qiao, Q., Li, X., Huang, R., Xue, S., Yang, Y."NR2F2 loss‑of‑function mutation is responsible for congenital bicuspid aortic valve". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 43, no. 4 (2019): 1839-1846. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2019.4087