Genetics of cardiac arrhythmias

Abstract excerpt

ver the last decade, we have witnessed a revolution in the understanding of primary cardiac arrhythmia syndromes. These remarkable advances stemmed from the discovery of mutations, primarily in ion channel genes, underlying a number of these disorders. Only 10 years ago the long QT syndrome (LQTS) was considered one disease entity, the Brugada syndrome had just been described, and the short QT syndrome (SQTS) had...

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