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\"Wei\"Ian\"Christine\"Jonathan<\/p>\n

\"Development\"<\/a>Congratulations to Wei Shi<\/a>, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, in collaboration with the Lab of Ian Davis, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>, Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology; G. Denman Hammond Professor of Childhood Cancer, UNC Children’s Research Institute and the Lab of Christine Edry Seidman, M.D.<\/a>, Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center; Professor, Harvard Medical School; Cardiovascular Medicine, and Jonathan G. Seidman, Ph.D.<\/a>, Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics, for publishing article, titled “CHD4 and SMYD1 repress common transcriptional programs in the developing heart\u201d, in the journal Development.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The study’s findings demonstrate that the gene CHD4, which is linked to congenital heart disease, interacts with the histone methyltransferase SMYD1 to regulate a group of common genes. The work was featured in the April, 2024, Volume 151, Issue 8 of the journal Development and can be read online<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

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