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Exploiting ion channel structure to assess rare variant pathogenicity.
Heart rhythm - 1 Jun 2018
Kroncke Brett M, Yang Tao, Kannankeril Prince, Shoemaker M Benjamin, Roden Dan M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A 27-year-old woman was seen for long QT syndrome. She was found to be a carrier of 2 variants, KCNQ1 Val162Met and KCNH2 Ser55Leu, and both were classified as "pathogenic" by a diagnostic laboratory, in part because of sequence proximity to other known pathogenic variants. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between both the KCNQ1 and KCNH2 variants and clinical...
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