UNC Researchers Identify a Gene Critical for Heart Function (IMAGE)

University of North Carolina Health Care

UNC Researchers Identify a Gene Critical for Heart Function

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Hearts from a wild type control mouse (left) and from a DOT1L-deleted mouse displaying dilated cardiomyopathy (right) . In the absence of DOT1L hearts become severely enlarged, compromising heart function.

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Lab of Yi Zhang, Ph.D., at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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