Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 8 , Pages 1058-1064 , August 2010

Desmin mutations as a cause of right ventricular heart failure affect the intercalated disks

  • Ellen Otten, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 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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  • Alexander Maass, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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  • Irene M. van Langen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
    • Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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  • Allard van der Wal, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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  • Nicolaas de Jonge, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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  • Maarten P. van den Berg, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, University Medical Center Groningen, University of 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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  • Arthur A.M. Wilde, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Heart Failure Research Center, Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    • Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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  • Jan D.H. Jongbloed, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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  • J. Peter van Tintelen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: J. Peter van Tintelen, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands

Received 25 August 2009 ,Accepted 20 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.04.023

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 8 , Pages 1058-1064 , August 2010

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