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New mutations in the KVLQT1 potassium channel that cause long-QT syndrome.
Circulation - 7 Apr 1998
Li H, Chen Q, Moss A J, Robinson J, Goytia V, Perry J C, Vincent G M, Priori S G, Lehmann M H, Denfield S W, Duff D, Kaine S, Shimizu W, Schwartz P J, Wang Q, Towbin J A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited cardiac arrhythmia that causes sudden death in young, otherwise healthy people. Four genes for LQTS have been mapped to chromosome 11p15.5 (LQT1), 7q35-36 (LQT2), 3p21-24 (LQT3), and 4q25-27 (LQT4). Genes responsible for LQT1, LQT2, and LQT3 have been identified as cardiac potassium channel genes (KVLQT1, HERG) and the cardiac sodium channel gene (SCN5A)....
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