Abstract
A fetus harboring a duplication of SMAD2 exons 1-6 presented with
dextrocardia and pulmonary hypoplasia. Mate-pair sequencing revealed the
duplication to be in inverted tandem orientation to the wild-type
SMAD2 allele, disrupting its sequence and decreasing expression.
These observations suggest SMAD2 to be responsible for the fetal
dextrocardia.