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Cardiac sodium channel mutation in atrial fibrillation.
Heart rhythm - 1 Jan 2008
Ellinor Patrick T, Nam Edwin G, Shea Marisa A, Milan David J, Ruskin Jeremy N, MacRae Calum A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutations in the sodium channel SCN5A have been implicated in many cardiac disorders, including the long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, conduction system disease, and dilated cardiomyopathy with atrial arrhythmias. OBJECTIVE: In view of the pleiotropic effects of SCN5A mutations, the purpose of this study was to examine a cohort of patients with familial atrial fibrillation (AF) for mutations in the...
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