Coverage of the discovery, which is to be published in Nature, was published in the London Times. Researcher Deepak Srivastva, from the University of Texas in Dallas, said, “We cannot change the fact that parents are going to pass along the mutation. But we might be able to develop a way to keep the disease from occurring.”
Also possible are prenatal treatments to correct the disorder. This might involve prenatal surgery, gene therapy to insert a working copy of GATA4, or drugs that supply the protein that is missing when the gene goes wrong.