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Cardiac sodium channel diseases.
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine - 1 Apr 2003
Napolitano Carlo, Rivolta Ilaria, Priori Silvia G
Abstract excerpt
In the last few years, a very active line of research took place after the first identification of SCN5A mutations associated with an inherited form of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death, the LQT3 variant of the long QT syndrome. Subsequently, two allelic diseases additional to LQT3 were shown to be due to mutations in the same gene, the Brugada syndrome (BrS) and the Lev-Lenegre syndrome (progressive cardiac...
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