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Article: Genetic Mutation Discovered As Cause.(cardiac conduction disease)
- Article from:
- Genomics & Genetics Weekly
- Article date:
- March 16, 2001
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2001 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Studies that started in an emergency room in The Netherlands have yielded the first molecular insight into cardiac conduction disease - a disorder that slows the heart rhythm, necessitating pacemaker implantation in millions worldwide.
Cardiac conduction disease tends to afflict older patients, not young children like the three year old whose episodes of fainting during a feverish illness brought her family to the front lines of genetic research. The child and several other members of her family, it turns out, have a genetic mutation that causes cardiac conduction disease.
Scientists collaborating across the ...