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Homozygous/Compound Heterozygous Triadin Mutations Associated With Autosomal-Recessive Long-QT Syndrome and Pediatric Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Elucidation of the Triadin Knockout Syndrome.
Circulation - 9 Jun 2015
Altmann Helene M, Tester David J, Will Melissa L, Middha Sumit, Evans Jared M, Eckloff Bruce W, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Long-QT syndrome (LQTS) may result in syncope, seizures, or sudden cardiac arrest. Although 16 LQTS-susceptibility genes have been discovered, 20% to 25% of LQTS remains genetically elusive. METHODS AND RESULTS: We performed whole-exome sequencing child-parent trio analysis followed by recessive and sporadic inheritance modeling and disease-network candidate analysis gene ranking to identify a novel...
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