Applying High-Resolution Variant Classification to Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Gene Testing in a Demographically Diverse Cohort of Sudden Unexplained Deaths

Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Lin, Ying ^a   Williams, Nori ^a   Wang, Dawei ^a   Coetzee, William ^b   Zhou, Bo ^a   Eng, Lucy S ^a   Um, Sung Yon ^a   Bao, Ruijun ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^c   McDonald, Thomas V ^d   Sampson, Barbara A ^a   Tang, Yingying ^a  

^a Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

death; demographics; incidental findings; molecular diagnostics; sudden

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CARDIAC CHANNELOPATHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85038618939     PISSN: 1942325X     EISSN: 19423268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.117.001839     Document Type: Article

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