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The Morton Lab

Advancing our understanding of the neonatal health and disease with the goal of improving diagnosis and personalized care through gene discovery, functional analysis of patient variants, and identifying biomarkers of neonatal outcomes.

Congenital Heart Disease and Brain Health

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Advancing our understanding of the genetics of congenital heart disease and brain development.

Meet our team

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Human Genetics

Genetics of congenital heart disease.

We study rare and common genetic variation in patients with congenital heart disease by leveraging cutting edge sequencing technologies and state-of-the-art computational methods.

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Cellular Models

In vitro human cell modelling.

We use human stem cells as models to understand the effect of gene variants in embryonic development.

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Clinical and Translational Research

From the bench to the bedside.

We perform observational studies to better understand the disease development of our patients in the hospital.