Overlapping lqt1 and LQT2 phenotype in a patient with long QT syndrome associated with loss-of-function variations in KCNQ1 and KCNH2

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1181-1190

  Cordeiro, Jonathan M ^a   Perez, Guillermo J ^a   Schmitt, Nicole ^b   Pfeiffer, Ryan ^a   Nesterenko, Vladislav V ^a   Burashnikov, Elena ^a   Veltmann, Christian ^c   Borggrefe, Martin ^c   Wolpert, Christian ^c   Schimpf, Rainer ^c   Antzelevitch, Charles ^a  

^a MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Electrophysiology; Genetics; Herg

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; KCNH2 GENE; KCNQ1 GENE; LONG QT SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LONG QT SYNDROME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 78650246146     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: 12057541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Y10-094     Document Type: Article

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