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Mutant caveolin-3 induces persistent late sodium current and is associated with long-QT syndrome.
Circulation - 14 Nov 2006
Vatta Matteo, Ackerman Michael J, Ye Bin, Makielski Jonathan C, Ughanze Enoh E, Taylor Erica W, Tester David J, Balijepalli Ravi C, Foell Jason D, Li Zhaohui, Kamp Timothy J, Towbin Jeffrey A
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BACKGROUND: Congenital long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is a primary arrhythmogenic syndrome stemming from perturbed cardiac repolarization. LQTS, which affects approximately 1 in 3000 persons, is 1 of the most common causes of autopsy-negative sudden death in the young. Since the sentinel discovery of cardiac channel gene mutations in LQTS in 1995, hundreds of mutations in 8 LQTS susceptibility genes have been...
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