Intronic variants and splicing errors in cardiovascular diseases

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-220

  Vatta, Matteo ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYBRID GENE; INTRON; KINETICS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RNA SPLICING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ADULT; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRONS; LOD SCORE; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 58849136347     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.12.006     Document Type: Editorial

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