Genetic Drowning Trigger
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Genetic drowning trigger.
The story is a familiar one: a young person drowns, but members of his or her family insist that the deceased was a “good swimmer.” Now, researchers from the Mayo Clinic think they may have found a genetic component to this unlikely tragedy. The researchers identified a new mutation in a gene associated with long-QT syndrome (LQTS) in a young female drowning victim (Ackerman MJ, Tester DJ, Cobu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.101.3.e36