The genetics of sudden cardiac death

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 223-239

  Arking, Dan E ^a   Sotoodehnia, Nona ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; association studies; electrophysiology; GWAS; QRS interval; QT interval; ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CATECHOLAMINERGIC POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANIMALS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MUTATION; NAV1.5 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84872437020     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090711-163841     Document Type: Review

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