Sudden death by stress: how far under the nerves should we dig to find out why LQT1 patients die?

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Mar 4;63(8):828-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.09.059. Epub 2013 Oct 30.

¹ Research Hospital Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin, Milan, Italy; Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa; Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: peter.schwartz@unipv.it.
² Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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Keywords: KCNQ1 mutation; heterologous expression; long QT syndrome; protein kinase A stimulation.

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