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Molecular genetics of long-QT syndrome.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Dec 1998
Wattanasirichaigoon D, Beggs A H
Abstract excerpt
Recent discoveries of genes involved in long-QT syndrome (LQTS) have led to extensive progress in understanding the molecular basis for this disorder of syncope and sudden cardiac death secondary to ventricular arrhythmias. The emerging unifying theme is that all genes identified to date encode either structural or regulatory subunits for ion channels involved in cardiac repolarization. Defects have been...
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