EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY OF CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The purpose of this study is to see if environmental factors are associated with human heart malformations. This is an observational study of possible risk factors for heart malformations in the greater Washington DC area. The overall hypothesis of this study is that gene-environment interactions modulate the occurrence of specific types of human heart malformations.