Human Venous Valve Disease Caused by Mutations in FOXC2 and GJC2
Published Online: 19 July, 2017 | Supp Info: http://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20160875 Downloaded from jem.rupress.org on September 24, 2018 Article Human venous valve disease caused by mutations in FOXC2 and GJC2 Oliver Lyons,1 Prakash Saha,1 Christopher Seet,1 Adam Kuchta,3 Andrew Arnold,3 Steven Grover,4,5 Victoria Rashbrook,1 Amélie Sabine,6,7 Gema Vizcay-Barrena,2 Ash Patel,1 Francesca Ludwinski,1 Soundrie Padayachee,3 Tsutomu Kume,8 Brenda R. Kwak,9 Glen Brice,10 Sahar Mansour,10 Pia Ostergaard,11 Peter Mortimer,11 Steve Jeffery,11 Nigel Brown,12 Taija Makinen,13 Tatiana V. Petrova,6,7 Bijan Modarai,1 and Alberto Smith1 1Academic Department of Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Division, BHF Centre of Research Excellence, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, England, UK 2Center for Ultrastructural Imaging, King’s College London, London, England, UK 3Department of Ultrasonic Angiology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, UK 4Division of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 5Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 6Department of Fundamental Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Zurich, Switzerland 7Division of Experimental Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland 8Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Evanston, IL 9Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 10South West Thames Regional Genetics Service, 11Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Institute, and 12Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education, St George’s Hospital, London, England, UK 13Rudbeck Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Venous valves (VVs) prevent venous hypertension and ulceration.
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