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Determining the Likelihood of Variant Pathogenicity Using Amino Acid-level Signal-to-Noise Analysis of Genetic Variation
Published on: January 16, 2019
Sudden Cardiac Death and Copy Number Variants: What Do We Know after 10 Years of Genetic Analysis?
Jesus Mates1, Irene Mademont-Soler2, Anna Fernandez-Falgueras1
1Cardiovascular Genetics Center, University of Girona-IDIBGI, Girona, Spain.
Abstract:
Over the last ten years, analysis of copy number variants has increasingly been applied to the study of arrhythmogenic pathologies associated with sudden death, mainly due to significant advances in the field of massive genetic sequencing. Nevertheless, few published reports have focused on the prevalence of copy number variants associated with sudden cardiac death. As a result, the frequency of these genetic alterations in arrhythmogenic diseases as well as their genetic interpretation and clinical translation has not been established. This review summarizes the current available data concerning copy number variants in sudden cardiac death-related diseases.
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