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Postmortem studies of exercise-related sudden death victims showed that in some cases no evidence for structural heart disease could be found.

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We would like to acknowledge Dr. David Huang and Dr. Helmut Klein for sharing with us clinical cases illustrating patients with inherited channelopathies and Betty Mycking for her assistance in data collection.

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