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Novel and heteroplasmic mutations in mitochondrial tRNA genes in Brugada syndrome.
Cardiology journal - 1 Jan 2018
Tafti Mahsasadat Fallah, Khatami Mehri, Rezaei Shiva, Heidari Mohammad Mehdi, Hadadzadeh Mehdi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a rare cardiac arrhythmia characterized by sudden death associated with electrocardiogram patterns characterized by incomplete right bundle-branch block and ST-segment elevations in the anterior precordial leads. This syndrome predominantly is seen in younger males with structurally normal hearts. Mitochondrial variants particularly mt-tRNA mutations, are hot spots that lead...
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