Annotation Detail

Information
Associated Genes
VEGFA
Associated Variants
VEGFA MUTATION
VEGFA MUTATION
Associated Disease
Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
Source Database
DisGeNET
Description
Recently, proangiogenic factors hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have been known to promote left ventricular myocardial angiogenesis and lead to cardiac hypertrophy, and this would be involved in RV hypertrophy of PH patients.
Pubmed
25301555
Section of the abstract supporting the evidence
ALL_TEXT_1/3
Number of the section of the abstract supporting the evidence
1
Number of the sentence supporting the evidence
2
Original source reporting the Gene Disease association
BeFree
DisGENET score for the Gene Disease association
0.00081432561624091
Drugs