Genomic organization of the human SCN5A gene encoding the cardiac sodium channel

Genomics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-16

  Wang, Qing ^a   Li, Zhizhong ^a   Shen, Jiaxiang ^a   Keating, Mark T ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHROMOSOME 3P; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTRON; LONG QT SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0029992905     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0236     Document Type: Article

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