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Bicuspid and unicuspid aortic valves: Different phenotypes of the same disease? Insight from the GenTAC Registry

Joseph M. Krepp¹, Mary J. Roman², Richard B. Devereux², Adrienne Bruce¹, Siddharth K. Prakash³, Shaine A. Morris⁴, Dianna M. Milewicz³, Kathryn W. Holmes⁵, William Ravekes⁵, Ralph V. Shohet⁶, Reed E. Pyeritz⁷, Cheryl L. Maslen⁸, Barbara L. Kroner⁹, Kim A. Eagle¹⁰, Liliana Preiss⁹, GenTAC Investigators^*, Federico M. Asch¹

1 MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
2 Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
3 University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
4 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
5 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
6 The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
7 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
9 RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
10 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

* Corresponding Author: Federico M. Asch, MD FASE, FACC, 100 Irving St, NW Suite EB 5123, Washington, DC 20010, USA. Email: