“…All of the 39 Hox genes are classified into four clusters, namely HoxA, HoxB, HoxC, HoxD respectively (Bhatlekar et al, 2014). Among the four clusters, HoxA cluster has attracted increasing attention because of its critical regulatory role in development of cardiovascular diseases, such as cardiac morphogenesis, ventricular septal defects, and endothelial inflammation (Di-Poi et al, 2010;Zhu et al, 2019a;Zhu et al, 2019b;Beachy et al, 2013;Makki and Capecchi, 2012). Recent studies have revealed that HoxA9, a member of HoxA cluster genes, was downregulated in hypertensive patients (Pirro et al, 2007), and that mRNA level of HoxA9 was enhanced in cardiac hypertrophy (Zhou et al, 2018).…”