A cardiac sodium channel mutation cosegregates with a rare connexin40 genotype in familial atrial standstill

Circulation Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-22

  Groenewegen, W A ^a   Firouzi, Mehran ^a   Bezzina, Connie R ^b   Vliex, Saskia ^a   Van Langen, Irene M ^b   Sandkuijl, Lodewijk ^c   Smits, Jeroen P P ^b   Hulsbeek, Miriam ^b   Rook, Martin B ^a   Jongsma, Habo J ^a   Wilde, Arthur A M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Gap junction channel; Mutation; Polymorphism; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SCN5A GENE; SINUS ARREST; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CONNEXINS; DIZZINESS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NETHERLANDS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNCOPE; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037428063     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000050585.07097.D7     Document Type: Article

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