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Cellular and ionic basis for the sex-related difference in the manifestation of the Brugada syndrome and progressive conduction disease phenotypes.
Journal of electrocardiology - 1 Jan 2003
Fish Jeffrey M, Antzelevitch Charles
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UNLABELLED: The Brugada syndrome (BS) has been linked to mutations in SCN5A. Despite equal hereditary transmission of the mutation between the sexes, the syndrome is 8 to 10 times more likely to occur in males. As recently reported, SCN5A mutations such as G1406R lead to development of BS phenoty...
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