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SUBMITTER: Sesti F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC27073 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sesti F F Abbott G W GW Wei J J Murray K T KT Saksena S S Schwartz P J PJ Priori S G SG Roden D M DM George A L AL Goldstein S A SA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000901 19
Drug-induced long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a prevalent disorder of uncertain etiology that predisposes to sudden death. KCNE2 encodes MinK-related peptide 1 (MiRP1), a subunit of the cardiac potassium channel I(Kr) that has been associated previously with inherited LQTS. Here, we examine KCNE2 in 98 patients with drug-induced LQTS, identifying three individuals with sporadic mutations and a patient with sulfamethoxazole-associated LQTS who carried a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) found in app ...[more]