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[New frontiers for an ancient disease: genetics of atrial fibrillation].
Giornale italiano di cardiologia (2006) - 1 Jan 2013
Disertori Marcello, Mazzola Silvia, Quintarelli Silvia, Arbustini Eloisa
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest sustained arrhythmia in clinical practice, but its treatment is still a challenge for modern cardiology. During the last decade new insights regarding AF genetic background have been achieved. Familial aggregation suggesting a potential heritability was well known in the pre-molecular era. Now, research on the molecular basis of the disease is providing evidence that...
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