Mutations in the hminK gene cause long QT syndrome and suppress I(Ks) function

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 338-340

  Splawski, Igor ^a   Tristani Firouzi, Martin ^a   Lehmann, Michael H ^d   Sanguinetti, Michael C ^a,b   Keating, Mark T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SINAI GRACE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030723260     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1197-338     Document Type: Article

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