Acute pain signaling has a key protective role and is highly evolutionarily conserved. Chronic pain, however, is maladaptive, occurring as a consequence of injury and disease …
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic variants linked to the risk of human disease. However, GWAS have so far remained largely …
V András, J Tomek, N Nagy, L Virág… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiac arrhythmias are among the leading causes of mortality. They often arise from alterations in the electrophysiological properties of cardiac cells and their underlying ionic …
Importance Early-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) can be the initial manifestation of a more serious underlying inherited cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia syndrome. Objective To examine …
R Deo, CM Albert - Circulation, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) generally refers to an unexpected death from a cardiovascular cause in a person with or without preexisting heart disease. The specificity of this definition …
CR Bezzina, J Barc, Y Mizusawa, CA Remme… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Brugada syndrome is a rare cardiac arrhythmia disorder, causally related to SCN5A mutations in around 20% of cases,,. Through a genome-wide association study of 312 …
Despite the significant decline in coronary artery disease (CAD) mortality in the second half of the 20th century, 1 sudden cardiac death (SCD) continues to claim 250 000 to 300 000 …
CR Bezzina, N Lahrouchi, SG Priori - Circulation research, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Sudden cardiac death occurs in a broad spectrum of cardiac pathologies and is an important cause of mortality in the general population. Genetic studies conducted during the past 20 …
JS Kooner, D Saleheen, X Sim, J Sehmi, W Zhang… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
We carried out a genome-wide association study of type-2 diabetes (T2D) in individuals of South Asian ancestry. Our discovery set included 5,561 individuals with T2D (cases) and …