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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cardiovasc Pathol. 2013 Oct 4;23(2):85–91. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2013.09.003

Table 1.

SWI/SNF subunits with cardiovascular phenotypes based on mouse knockout studies

Subunit Cardiomyocytes Vascular
Endothelial Cells
Pericytes Neural Crest
BRG1 Hypoplastic right ventricle, thin myocardium

Shortened outflow tract Lack of septum

Hypotrabeculation Lack of cardiac jelly
Yolk sac defects

Coronary vessel death in adults if also BRM deficient
Patent ductus arteriosus

Ventricular -septal defects

Dilated cardiac chambers
Shortened outflow tracts

Vascular defects
BAF250A Developmental delay of right ventricle

Defective formation of outflow tract

Defective formation of ventricular septum

Hypotrabeculation

Cardiac progenitor cell differentiation in vitro
N.D. N.D. N.D.
BAF180 Hypoplastic ventricles

Defective formation of ventricular septum
Coronary vessel defects N.D. N.D.
BAF60C Hypoplastic ventricles Shortened outflow tract

Hypotrabeculation

Abnormal looping
N.D. N.D. N.D.
BAF155 Yolk sac defects N.D. N.D.

N.D. Does not necessarily infer there is no function for that cell type but can instead reflect either a lack of the appropriate conditional tissue-specific conditional mutation or insufficient phenotypic analysis.