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Common Ancestry-Specific Ion Channel Variants Predispose to Drug-Induced Arrhythmias
7 Jan 2022
Abstract excerpt
Background: Multiple reports associate the cardiac sodium channel gene ( SCN5A ) variants S1103Y and R1193Q with type 3 congenital long QT syndrome and drug-induced long QT syndrome. These variants are too common in ancestral populations to be highly arrhythmogenic at baseline, however: S1103Y allele frequency is 8.1% in African Americans and R1193Q 6.1% in East Asians. R1193Q is known to increase late sodium...
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