Jesus Mates, Irene Mademont-Soler, Bernat Del Olmo, Carles Ferrer-Costa, Monica Coll, Alexandra Pérez-Serra, Ferran Picó, Catarina Allegue, Anna Fernandez-Falgueras, Patricia Álvarez, Raquel Yotti, Maria Angeles Espinosa, Georgia Sarquella-Brugada, Sergi Cesar, Ester Carro, Josep Brugada, Elena Arbelo, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Mar Borregan, Eduardo Tizzano, Amador López-Granados, Francisco Mazuelos, Aranzazu Díaz de Bustamante, Maria Teresa Darnaude, José Ignacio González-Hevia, Felícitas Díaz-Flores, Francisco Trujillo, Anna Iglesias, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, Oscar Campuzano, Ramon Brugada
Several studies have identified copy number variants (CNVs) as responsible for cardiac diseases associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD), but very few exhaustive analyses in large cohorts of patients have been performed, and they have been generally focused on a specific SCD-related disease. The aim of the present study was to screen for CNVs the most prevalent genes associated with SCD in a large cohort of patients who suffered sudden unexplained death or had an inherited cardiac disease (cardiomyopathy or channelopathy)...
March 6, 2018: European Journal of Human Genetics: EJHG