Molecular genetics of atrial fibrillation
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Molecular genetics of atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. There is genetic predisposition for the development of AF. Recently, by linkage analysis, several loci have been mapped for monogenetic AF, including 11p15.5, 21q22, 17q, 7q35-36, 5p13, 6q14-16, and 10q22. Some of these loci encode for subunits of potassium channels (KCNQ1, KCNE2, KCNJ2, and KCNH2 genes), and the remainin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1756-994X
DOI: 10.1186/gm54