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Common variants in myocardial ion channel genes modify the QT interval in the general population: results from the KORA study.
Circulation research - 1 Apr 2005
Pfeufer Arne, Jalilzadeh Shapour, Perz Siegfried, Mueller Jakob C, Hinterseer Martin, Illig Thomas, Akyol Mahmut, Huth Cornelia, Schöpfer-Wendels Andreas, Kuch Bernhard, Steinbeck Gerhard, Holle Rolf, Näbauer Michael, Wichmann H-Erich, Meitinger Thomas, Kääb Stefan
Abstract excerpt
Altered myocardial repolarization is one of the important substrates of ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation. The influence of rare gene variants on repolarization is evident in familial long QT syndrome. To investigate the influence of common gene variants on the QT interval we performed a linkage disequilibrium based SNP association study of four candidate genes. Using a two-step design we analyzed 174 SNPs...
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