Despite appropriate measures, a neonate passes away from a combined ventricular septal defect and truncus arteriosus. Which of the following cell populations were most likely absent during early fetal cardiac development?
Ectodermal neural crest
Extra-embryonic mesoderm
Intra-embryonic mesoderm
Mantle layer neuroblasts
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