Heritability in genetic heart disease: the role of genetic background

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Background: Mutations in genes encoding ion channels or sarcomeric proteins are an important cause of hereditary cardiac disease. However, the severity of the resultant disease varies considerably even among those with an identical mutation. Such clinical variation is often thought to be explained largely by differences in genetic background or 'modifier genes'. We aimed to test the prediction that identical...

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