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Allelic variants in long-QT disease genes in patients with drug-associated torsades de pointes.
Circulation - 23 Apr 2002
Yang Ping, Kanki Hideaki, Drolet Benoit, Yang Tao, Wei Jian, Viswanathan Prakash C, Hohnloser Stefan H, Shimizu Wataru, Schwartz Peter J, Stanton Marshall, Murray Katherine T, Norris Kris, George Alfred L, Roden Dan M
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BACKGROUND: DNA variants appearing to predispose to drug-associated "acquired" long-QT syndrome (aLQTS) have been reported in congenital long-QT disease genes. However, the incidence of these genetic risk factors has not been systematically evaluated in a large set of patients with aLQTS. We have...
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