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Cardiac channelopathies: it's in the genes

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In 1995, Mark Keating and colleagues identified two genes responsible for congenital long QT syndrome, a cause of sudden cardiac death. Perturbations in the ion channels that orchestrate the beating heart were central to the disorder. This revelation provided a molecular model for the study of ventricular arrhythmias and enabled further dissection of the genetic defects underlying subtleties in the cardiac phenotype. Soon, these discoveries will be further translated to clinical medicine, with the expected release of one of the first comprehensive clinical genetic tests in cardiology.

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  1. Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics and Molecular Pharmacology, Long QT Syndrome Clinic and Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 55905, Minnesota, USA

    Michael J Ackerman

  2. consultant and member of the scientific advisory board of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals,

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Ackerman, M. Cardiac channelopathies: it's in the genes. Nat Med 10, 463–464 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0504-463

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