Genome-Wide Association Studies Mislead on Cardiac Arrhythmia Risk Gene
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 15:20
in Health & Medicine
A gene linked by genome-wide association studies to risk of cardiac arrhythmia is found to play only a minimal role in the heart. The mutations within the gene in actuality regulate a different gene, which appears to be the primary gene responsible for cardiac arrhythmia risk, according to a study published March 18 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.