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Enhancing the Predictive Power of Mutations in the C-Terminus of the KCNQ1-Encoded Kv7.1 Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel.
Journal of cardiovascular translational research - 1 Apr 2015
Kapplinger Jamie D, Tseng Andrew S, Salisbury Benjamin A, Tester David J, Callis Thomas E, Alders Marielle, Wilde Arthur A M, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
Despite the overrepresentation of Kv7.1 mutations among patients with a robust diagnosis of long QT syndrome (LQTS), a background rate of innocuous Kv7.1 missense variants observed in healthy controls creates ambiguity in the interpretation of LQTS genetic test results. A recent study showed that...
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