Cardiac channelopathies: it's in the genes
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Mark Keating and colleagues identified genes responsible for congenital long QT syndrome that caused sudden cardiac death. Perturbations in the ion channels were central to the disorder and 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.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2004
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A COG in the sugar machine
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A congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG) that uniquely disrupts the machinery that adds sugar groups to protein is described. The disruption of (COG) complex in glycosylation-deficient Chinese Hamster ovary (CHO) mutant cell lines leads to multiple glycosylation abnormalities and numerous morphological and functional defects.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2004
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