Sentences with phrase «lox mutation»

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Wagenseil's novel approach, recently published in Heart and Circulatory Physiology, focused on the genetic signaling and mechanical effects of mutations in lysyl oxidase, or LOX.

Through genetic analysis of a family with a history of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified mutations in the LOX gene, a gene associated with the integrity of the arterial wall, in human subjects for the first time.