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Cardiac sodium channel (SCN5A) variants associated with atrial fibrillation.
Circulation - 15 Apr 2008
Darbar Dawood, Kannankeril Prince J, Donahue Brian S, Kucera Gayle, Stubblefield Tanya, Haines Jonathan L, George Alfred L, Roden Dan M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genetic studies have identified ion channel gene variants in families segregating atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice. Here, we tested the hypothesis that vulnerability to AF is associated with variation in SCN5A, the gene encoding the cardiac sodium channel. METHODS AND RESULTS: We resequenced the entire SCN5A coding region in 375 subjects with either lone AF...
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