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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy caused by deletions in plakophilin-2 and plakoglobin (Naxos disease) in families from Greece and Cyprus: genotype-phenotype relations, diagnostic features and prognosis.
European heart journal - 1 Sept 2006
Antoniades Loizos, Tsatsopoulou Adalena, Anastasakis Aris, Syrris Petros, Asimaki Angeliki, Panagiotakos Demosthenes, Zambartas Costas, Stefanadis Christodoulos, McKenna William J, Protonotarios Nikos
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AIMS: To evaluate clinical disease expression, non-invasive diagnosis, and prognosis in families with dominant vs. recessive arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) due to mutations in related desmosomal proteins plakophilin-2 (PKP2) and plakoglobin (JUP), respectively. METHODS AND RESULTS: One hundred and eighty-seven individuals belonging to ARVC families, four with dominant PKP2 mutations and 12...
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