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SUBMITTER: Haghighi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5074532 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haghighi Kobra K Chen Guoli G Sato Yoji Y Fan Guo-Chang GC He Suiwen S Kolokathis Fotis F Pater Luke L Paraskevaidis Ioannis I Jones W Keith WK Dorn Gerald W GW Kremastinos Dimitrios Th DT Kranias Evangelia G EG
Human mutation 20080501 5
Depressed calcium handling by the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca-ATPase and its regulator phospholamban (PLN) is a key characteristic of human and experimental heart failure. Accumulating evidence indicates that increases in the relative levels of PLN to Ca-ATPase in failing hearts and resulting inhibition of Ca sequestration during diastole, impairs contractility. Here, we identified a genetic variant in the PLN promoter region, which increases its expression and may serve as a genetic modifier ...[more]