Brief Comments 22 q 11 . 2 Duplication and Congenital Heart Defects

Rafael Fabiano Machado Rosa1,2, Paulo Ricardo Gazzola Zen1,2, Cláudia Pires Ricachinevsky2, Carlo Benatti Pilla2, Vera Lúcia Berenstein Pereira1, Tatiana Roman1, Marilela Varella-Garcia3, Giorgio Adriano Paskulin1,2 Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA)1; Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa de Porto Alegre (CHSCPA)2, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; University of Colorado Denver3, Aurora, Colorado EUA

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