Genetics of sudden cardiac arrest.

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Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) due to ventricular arrhythmias is a major cause of mortality in western populations with up to 450,000 deaths in the United States each year. Although environmental factors clearly contribute to the determinants of SCA, familial aggregation studies and advances in the molecular genetics of inherited arrhythmias suggest that genetic factors confer susceptibility to SCA in the general...

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