The role of hereditary KCNQ1 mutations in water-related death.

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Drowning remains one of the major causes of death in most developed countries despite the fact that many of the victims are known to be at least moderate swimmers as well as healthy directly before the event. Here, fatal arrhythmias and especially the long QT syndrome (LQTS) have been proposed as the underlying mechanism which may be connected to mutations in one of the associated genes. The KCNQ1 gene is...

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