Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 11 , Pages 1574-1583 , November 2009

Severe cardiac phenotype with right ventricular predominance in a large cohort of patients with a single missense mutation in the DES gene

  • J. Peter van Tintelen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. J. Peter van Tintelen, Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Isabelle C. Van Gelder, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Angeliki Asimaki, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Albert J.H. Suurmeijer, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Ans C.P. Wiesfeld, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Jan D.H. Jongbloed, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Arthur van den Wijngaard, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Jan B.M. Kuks, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Karin Y. van Spaendonck-Zwarts, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Nicolette Notermans, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Ludolf Boven, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Freek van den Heuvel, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Hermine E. Veenstra-Knol, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Jeffrey E. Saffitz, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Robert M.W. Hofstra, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Maarten P. van den Berg, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Received 6 March 2009 ,Accepted 23 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.041

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 11 , Pages 1574-1583 , November 2009

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