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Prevalence of arrhythmia-associated gene mutations and risk of sudden cardiac death in the Finnish population.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jun 2013
Lahtinen Annukka M, Havulinna Aki S, Noseworthy Peter A, Jula Antti, Karhunen Pekka J, Perola Markus, Newton-Cheh Christopher, Salomaa Veikko, Kontula Kimmo
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BACKGROUND: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a major cause of death in Western countries. It has a heritable component, but previous molecular studies have mainly focused on common genetic variants. We studied the prevalence, clinical phenotypes, and risk of SCD presented by ten rare mutations previously associated with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, or catecholaminergic...
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