Cardiac pathologies in mouse loss of imprinting models are due to misexpression of H19 long noncoding RNA
Ki-Sun Park, Beenish Rahat, Hyung Chul Lee, Zu‐Xi Yu, Jacob A. Noeker, Apratim Mitra, Connor M. Kean, Russell H. Knutsen, Danielle Springer, Claudia M. Gebert, Beth A. Kozel, Karl E. Pfeifer
The paper shows that maternal loss of imprinting at the H19/IGF2 locus causes cardiac pathologies in mice, with Igf2 driving transient hypertrophy and H19 causing progressive fibrosis and reduced ventricular function.
eLife · Aug 17, 2021Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology