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Eur J Hum Genet. 2021 Dec;29(12):1825-1832. doi: 10.1038/s41431-021-00904-y. Epub 2021 May 24.

Clinical utility gene card for: Long-QT syndrome.

European journal of human genetics : EJHG

Britt M Beckmann, Stefanie Scheiper-Welling, Arthur A M Wilde, Stefan Kääb, Eric Schulze-Bahr, Silke Kauferstein

Affiliations

  1. Department of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. [email protected].
  2. Department of Medicine I, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. [email protected].
  3. Department of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  4. Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Heart Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  5. European Reference Network for Rare and Low Prevalence Complex Diseases of the Heart (ERN GUARDHEART; http://guardheart.ern-net.eu), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  6. Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  7. Department of Medicine I, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
  8. German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partnersite Munich, Munich, Germany.
  9. Institute for Genetics of Heart Diseases, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.

PMID: 34031550 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-021-00904-y

[No abstract available.]

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