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Case reports of two pedigrees with recessive arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy associated with homozygous Thr335Ala variant in DSG2.
BMC medical genetics - 17 Aug 2017
Qadri Sami, Anttonen Olli, Viikilä Juho, Seppälä Eija H, Myllykangas Samuel, Alastalo Tero-Pekka, Holmström Miia, Heliö Tiina, Koskenvuo Juha W
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BACKGROUND: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited cardiac disease, involving changes in ventricular myocardial tissue and leading to fatal arrhythmias. Mutations in desmosomal genes are thought to be the main cause of ARVC. However, the exact molecular genetic etiology of the disease still remains largely inconclusive, and this along with large variabilities in clinical...
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