Desmosome mutations in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy important insight but only part of the picture

Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 415-417

  Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATENIN; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 2; DESMOPLAKIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLAKIN; PLAKOGLOBIN; PLAKOPHILIN; PLAKOPHILIN 2; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 43; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DESMOCOLLIN; DSC2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DSG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PKP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CHANNELOPATHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DESMOSOME; DSC2 GENE; DSG2 GENE; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; JUP GENE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PENETRANCE; PKP2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RYR2 GENE; SUDDEN DEATH; TGF BETA GENE; TISSUE REPAIR; TMEM43 GENE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUTATION; NETHERLANDS; NOTE;

ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; COHORT STUDIES; DESMOCOLLINS; DESMOGLEIN 2; DESMOSOMES; HUMANS; MUTATION; NETHERLANDS; PLAKOPHILINS;

EID: 77949901321     PISSN: 1942325X     EISSN: 19423268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.109.909366     Document Type: Editorial

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