Heart Rhythm
Volume 8, Issue 8 , Pages 1214-1221 , August 2011

Population-prevalent desmosomal mutations predisposing to arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

  • Annukka M. Lahtinen, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Research Program for Molecular Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Eero Lehtonen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Laboratory Animal Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Annukka Marjamaa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Research Program for Molecular Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Maija Kaartinen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Tiina Heliö, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Kimmo Porthan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Lasse Oikarinen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Lauri Toivonen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Heikki Swan, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Antti Jula, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Leena Peltonen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK
    • Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Deceased
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  • Aarno Palotie, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK
    • Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Veikko Salomaa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Kimmo Kontula, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Research Program for Molecular Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Kimmo Kontula, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, FIN-00290 Helsinki, Finland

Received 15 February 2011 ,Accepted 3 March 2011.

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 This study was supported by research grants from the Academy of Finland to Dr. Kontula and Dr. Salomaa (grant number 129494); the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation to Dr. Kontula; the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research to Drs. Kontula, Heliö, and Porthan; the Finnish Cultural Foundation to Dr. Lahtinen; the Emil Aaltonen Foundation to Dr. Marjamaa; the Finnish Medical Foundation to Dr. Heliö; the Aarne Koskelo Foundation to Dr. Porthan; and the special governmental subsidy for health sciences research to Dr. Heliö.

PII: S1547-5271(11)00282-7

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.03.015

Heart Rhythm
Volume 8, Issue 8 , Pages 1214-1221 , August 2011

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