Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 22-29 , January 2010

Multiple mutations in desmosomal proteins encoding genes in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia

  • Barbara Bauce, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Andrea Nava, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Giorgia Beffagna, BSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Cristina Basso, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical-Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Alessandra Lorenzon, BSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Gessica Smaniotto, BSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Marzia De Bortoli, BSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Ilaria Rigato, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Elisa Mazzotti, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Alexandros Steriotis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Martina Perazzolo Marra, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Jeffry A. Towbin, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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  • Gaetano Thiene, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical-Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies, University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy
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  • Gian Antonio Danieli, BSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Alessandra Rampazzo, BSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Alessandra Rampazzo, Department of Biology, University of Padua, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padua, Italy

Received 23 June 2009 ,Accepted 26 September 2009.

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 This study was supported by Telethon, Rome, Italy (GGP07220 and GGP05261); Fifth Framework Program European Commission (QLG1-CT-2000-01091), Bruxelles, Belgium; National Institutes of Health (U04HL 65652), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Ministry of Health, MIUR (2006061007_002), Rome, Italy; and Fondazione CA.RI.PA.RO, Padua, Italy.

PII: S1547-5271(09)01145-X

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.09.070

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 22-29 , January 2010

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