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[Long QT-interval syndrome and investigation of heritability: psychological reactions in three generations in one family].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 20 May 2000
ten Kroode H F, van Langen I M, Hendriks K S, van Tintelen J P, Grosfeld F J, Wilde A A
Abstract excerpt
DNA diagnostics were carried out in a family after the long QT interval syndrome had been diagnosed in one of its members. The psychic reactions to this testing were different from those seen in other hereditary diseases such as Huntington's disease. This was probably due to the sudden and unexpected occurrence of the arrhythmia. The family members in whom clinical and DNA diagnostics gave purely negative...
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