Gene for progressive familial heart block type I maps to chromosome 19q13.

doi:10.1161/01.cir.91.6.1633

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Gene for progressive familial heart block type I maps to chromosome 19q13.

Circulation - 15 Mar 1995

Brink P A, Ferreira A, Moolman J C, Weymar H W, van der Merwe P L, Corfield V A

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BACKGROUND: Progressive familial heart block type I (PF-HBI) is a dominantly inherited cardiac bundle-branch conduction disorder that has been traced through nine generations of a large South African kindred. Similar conduction disorders have been reported elsewhere; however, the cause of these d...

Topics

Bundle-Branch Block
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19
Female
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Markers
Genotype
Humans
Male
Pedigree
Recombination, Genetic
South Africa

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