SIDS: Genetic and environmental influences may cause arrhythmia in this silent killer

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 297-299

  Makielski, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEXILETINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CELL STRAIN HEK293; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ARRHYTHMIA; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SODIUM CHANNELS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 32444435135     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI27689     Document Type: Review

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