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SCN5A (NaV1.5) Variant Functional Perturbation and Clinical Presentation: Variants of a Certain Significance.
Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine - 1 May 2018
Kroncke Brett M, Glazer Andrew M, Smith Derek K, Blume Jeffrey D, Roden Dan M
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BACKGROUND: Accurately predicting the impact of rare nonsynonymous variants on disease risk is an important goal in precision medicine. Variants in the cardiac sodium channel SCN5A (protein NaV1.5; voltage-dependent cardiac Na+ channel) are associated with multiple arrhythmia disorders, including Brugada syndrome and long QT syndrome. Rare SCN5A variants also occur in ≈1% of unaffected individuals. We...
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