HRS/EHRA Expert Consensus Statement on the State of Genetic Testing for the Channelopathies and Cardiomyopathies

Heart Rhythm - Tập 8 Số 8 - Trang 1308-1339 - 2011
Michael J. Ackerman1, Silvia G. Priori2, Stephan Willems3, Charles I. Berul4, Ramón Brugada5, Hugh Calkins6, A. John Camm7, Patrick T. Ellinor8, Michael H. Gollob9, Robert M. Hamilton10, Ray E. Hershberger11, Daniel P. Judge6,12, Hervé Le Marec13, William J. McKenna14, Eric Schulze‐Bahr15, Christopher Semsarian16, Jeffrey A. Towbin17, Hugh Watkins18, Arthur A.M. Wilde19, Christian Wolpert20, Douglas P. Zipes21
1Mayo Clinic Rochester-MN
2Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy and New York University, New York, New York
3University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
4Children's National Medical Center
5University of Girona;
6Johns Hopkins University
7St George's University of London
8Harvard University
9University of Ottawa
10University of Toronto
11University of Miami
12Université de Paris
13l'Institut du thorax, Nantes Cedex, Nantes, France
14University College London
15#N##TAB##TAB##TAB##TAB# University of Münster#N##TAB##TAB##TAB#
16University of Sydney
17Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
18University of Oxford.
19University of Amsterdam#N#
20Ludwigsburg Clinic
21Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana

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