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Familial atrial fibrillation is a genetically heterogeneous disorder.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 18 Jun 2003
Darbar Dawood, Herron Kathleen J, Ballew Jeffrey D, Jahangir Arshad, Gersh Bernard J, Shen Win-K, Hammill Stephen C, Packer Douglas L, Olson Timothy M
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OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to identify and characterize familial cases of atrial fibrillation (AF) in our clinical practice and to determine whether AF is genetically heterogeneous. BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation is not generally regarded as a heritable disorder, yet a genetic locus for familial AF was previously mapped to chromosome 10. METHODS: Of 2,610 patients seen in our arrhythmia clinic...
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