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A spectrum of functional effects for disease causing mutations in the Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome.
Cardiovascular research - 1 Sept 2001
Huang L, Bitner-Glindzicz M, Tranebjaerg L, Tinker A
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OBJECTIVE: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) is a recessively inherited long QT syndrome (LQTS) characterised by profound sensorineural deafness and predisposition to syncope and sudden cardiac death. Mutation analysis has established the presence of mutations in affected individuals in the genes KCNQ1 and KCNE1: the potassium channel complex responsible for the cardiac I(Ks) current involved in...
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