Congenital sick sinus syndrome caused by recessive mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene (SCN5A)

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1019-1028

  Benson, D Woodrow ^a   Wang, Dao W ^b   Dyment, Macaira ^a   Knilans, Timothy K ^a   Fish, Frank A ^b   Strieper, Margaret J ^c   Rhodes, Thomas H ^b   George Jr , Alfred L ^b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SIBLEY HEART CENTER CARDIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VOLTAGE GATED NA+ CHANNEL NA(V)1.5A; VOLTAGE-GATED NA+ CHANNEL NA(V)1.5A;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MUTAGENESIS; PATCH CLAMP; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCN5A GENE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0242317397     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200318062     Document Type: Article

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