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Mapping of a gene for long QT syndrome to chromosome 4q25-27.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 1995
Schott J J, Charpentier F, Peltier S, Foley P, Drouin E, Bouhour J B, Donnelly P, Vergnaud G, Bachner L, Moisan J P
Abstract excerpt
Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a heterogeneous inherited disorder causing syncope and sudden death from ventricular arrhythmias. A first locus for this disorder was mapped to chromosome 11p15.5. However, locus heterogeneity has been demonstrated in several families, and two other loci have recently been located on chromosomes 7q35-36 and 3p21-24. We used linkage analysis to map the locus in a 65-member family in...
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