Tuesday 1 July 2014

Twin Studies Shed New Light on Cardiac Arrhythmia-Causing Genes

Two international studies conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and published in the journals Nature Genetics and Nature Methods have shed new light on genes that increase the risk of serious cardiac arrhythmias. The iNature Genetics/i report identifies several new gene regions associated with variations in the QT interval - a stage in the heart's electrical cycle that, if prolonged, increases ...

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