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A novel C-terminal truncation SCN5A mutation from a patient with sick sinus syndrome, conduction disorder and ventricular tachycardia.
Cardiovascular research - 1 Dec 2007
Tan Bi-Hua, Iturralde-Torres Pedro, Medeiros-Domingo Argelia, Nava Santiago, Tester David J, Valdivia Carmen R, Tusié-Luna Teresa, Ackerman Michael J, Makielski Jonathan C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Individual mutations in the SCN5A-encoding cardiac sodium channel alpha-subunit cause single cardiac arrhythmia disorders, but a few cause multiple distinct disorders. Here we report a family harboring an SCN5A mutation (L1821fs/10) causing a truncation of the C-terminus with a marked and complex biophysical phenotype and a corresponding variable and complex clinical phenotype with variable...
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