New genetic link between cardiac arrhythmias and thyroid dysfunction identified
Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
NEW YORK (September 20, 2009) -- Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle -- a healthy heartbeat -- have now also been found to play a key role in thyroid hormone (TH) biosynthesis, according to Weill Cornell Medical College researchers.