Half of children with severe heart defects also experience learning disabilities or other neurodevelopmental delays, which have been blamed partly on the stress of heart surgery they undergo early in life and on impaired blood flow during pregnancy. A new study finds evidence for an additional culprit, one that had long been suspected: genetics. Christine Seidman (Brigham and Women’s) is co-senior author of the paper.
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