Phylogenetic and Physicochemical Analyses Enhance the Classification of Rare Nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Variants in Type 1 and 2 Long-QT Syndrome
Author(s) -
John R. Giudicessi,
Jamie D. Kapplinger,
David J. Tester,
Mariëlle Alders,
Benjamin A. Salisbury,
Arthur A.M. Wilde,
Michael J. Ackerman
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1942-325X
pISSN - 1942-3268
DOI - 10.1161/circgenetics.112.963785
Subject(s) - nonsynonymous substitution , in silico , biology , genetics , single nucleotide polymorphism , phylogenetic tree , computational biology , long qt syndrome , gene , qt interval , medicine , genotype , genome
Hundreds of nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (nsSNVs) have been identified in the 2 most common long-QT syndrome-susceptibility genes (KCNQ1 and KCNH2). Unfortunately, an ≈3%
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