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Compound Heterozygous SCN5A Mutations in a Toddler - Are they Associated with a More Severe Phenotype?
Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia - 1 Jan 2017
Sacilotto Luciana, Epifanio Hindalis Ballesteros, Darrieux Francisco Carlos da Costa, Wulkan Fanny, Oliveira Theo Gremen Mimary, Hachul Denise Tessariol, Pereira Alexandre da Costa, Scanavacca Mauricio Ibrahim
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Compound heterozygosity has been described in inherited arrhythmias, and usually associated with a more severe phenotype. Reports of this occurrence in Brugada syndrome patients are still rare. We report a study of genotype-phenotype correlation after the identification of new variants by genetic testing. We describe the case of an affected child with a combination of two different likely pathogenic SCN5A...
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