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PKP2 mutations in sudden death from arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and sudden unexpected death with negative autopsy (SUDNA).
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society - 1 Jan 2012
Zhang Mingchang, Tavora Fabio, Oliveira Joao Bosco, Li Ling, Franco Marcello, Fowler David, Zhao Ziqin, Burke Allen
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BACKGROUND: Plakophilin2 (PKP2) is a desmosome-related protein with numerous armadillo repeats and has been linked to arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). Fatal arrhythmias resulting in sudden death also occur in the absence of morphologic cardiac abnormalities at autopsy, and...
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