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Association of TGFBR2 polymorphism with risk of sudden cardiac arrest in patients with coronary artery disease.
Heart rhythm - 1 Dec 2009
Tseng Zian H, Vittinghoff Eric, Musone Stacy L, Lin Feng, Whiteman Dean, Pawlikowska Ludmila, Kwok Pui-Yan, Olgin Jeffrey E, Aouizerat Bradley E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Transforming growth factor ss (TGFss) signaling has been shown to promote myocardial fibrosis and remodeling with coronary artery disease (CAD), and previous studies show a major role for fibrosis in the initiation of malignant ventricular arrhythmias (VA) and sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in TGFss pathway genes may be associated with SCA. OBJECTIVE: We...
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