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Molecular characterization of the calcium release channel deficiency syndrome.
JCI insight - 6 Aug 2020
Tester David J, Kim C S John, Hamrick Samantha K, Ye Dan, O'Hare Bailey J, Bombei Hannah M, Fitzgerald Kristi K, Haglund-Turnquist Carla M, Atkins Dianne L, Nunez Luis A Ochoa, Law Ian, Temple Joel, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
We identified a potentially novel homozygous duplication involving the promoter region and exons 1-4 of the gene encoding type 2 cardiac ryanodine receptor (RYR2) that is responsible for highly penetrant, exertion-related sudden deaths/cardiac arrests in the Amish community without an overt phenotype to suggest RYR2-mediated catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Homozygous RYR2 duplication...
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