Connexin defects underlie arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in a novel mouse model

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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) termed a 'disease of the desmosome' is an inherited cardiomyopathy that recently underwent reclassification owing to the identification of left-dominant and biventricular disease forms. Homozygous loss-of-function mutations in the desmosomal component, desmoplakin, are found in patients exhibiting a biventricular form of ARVC; however, no models recapitulate...

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