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Predicting the Functional Impact of KCNQ1 Variants of Unknown Significance.
Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics - 1 Oct 2017
Li Bian, Mendenhall Jeffrey L, Kroncke Brett M, Taylor Keenan C, Huang Hui, Smith Derek K, Vanoye Carlos G, Blume Jeffrey D, George Alfred L, Sanders Charles R, Meiler Jens
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BACKGROUND: An emerging standard-of-care for long-QT syndrome uses clinical genetic testing to identify genetic variants of the KCNQ1 potassium channel. However, interpreting results from genetic testing is confounded by the presence of variants of unknown significance for which there is inadequate evidence of pathogenicity. METHODS AND RESULTS: In this study, we curated from the literature a high-quality set of...
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