In a study of 700 congenital cardiac defects in dogs there were similarities, anatomic and epidemiologic, to defects occurring in man. Marked excesses of certain anomalies observed in specific breeds can serve as models for genetic and environmental studies.
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Mulvihill et al. (1973) studied this question.
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