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Cardiac ion channel gene mutations in Greek long QT syndrome patients.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2010
Kotta C-M, Anastasakis A, Gatzoulis K, Papagiannis J, Geleris P, Stefanadis C
Abstract excerpt
The long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited cardiac arrhythmia that may lead to sudden death in the absence of structural heart disease. Mutations in the cardiac potassium and sodium channel genes can be found in approximately 70 percent of patients with a highly probable clinical diagnosis. In this study, we aimed to genotype and explore the yield of genetic testing of LQTS patients from Greece, for whom there...
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