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Brugada syndrome disease phenotype explained in apparently benign sodium channel mutations.
Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics - 1 Apr 2014
Hoshi Malcolm, Du Xi X, Shinlapawittayatorn Krekwit, Liu Haiyan, Chai Sam, Wan Xiaoping, Ficker Eckhard, Deschênes Isabelle
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an arrhythmogenic disorder that has been linked to mutations in SCN5A, the gene encoding for the pore-forming α-subunit of the cardiac sodium channel. Typically, BrS mutations in SCN5A result in a reduction of sodium current with some mutations even exhibiting a dominant-negative effect on wild-type (WT) channels, thus leading to an even more prominent decrease in current...
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