Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Management of asymptomatic arrhythmias: a European heart rhythm association (EHRA) consensus document, endorsed by the heart failure association (HFA), heart …

DO Arnar, GH Mairesse, G Boriani, H Calkins… - Ep …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Asymptomatic arrhythmias are frequently encountered in clinical practice. Although studies
specifically dedicated to these asymptomatic arrhythmias are lacking, many arrhythmias still …

2018 ACC/AHA/HRS guideline on the evaluation and management of patients with bradycardia and cardiac conduction delay: a report of the American College of …

FM Kusumoto, MH Schoenfeld, C Barrett… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
The recommendations listed in this guideline are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
initial extensive evidence review, which included literature derived from research involving …

Familial Sinus Node Disease Caused by a Gain of GIRK (G-Protein Activated Inwardly Rectifying K+ Channel) Channel Function

J Kuß, B Stallmeyer, M Goldstein, S Rinné… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Inherited forms of sinus node dysfunction (SND) clinically include bradycardia,
sinus arrest, and chronotropic incompetence and may serve as disease models to …

Sequence variants with large effects on cardiac electrophysiology and disease

K Norland, G Sveinbjornsson, RB Thorolfsdottir… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Features of the QRS complex of the electrocardiogram, reflecting ventricular depolarisation,
associate with various physiologic functions and several pathologic conditions. We test 32.5 …

Ancestry‐specific association mapping in admixed populations

L Skotte, E Jørsboe, TS Korneliussen… - Genetic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade genome‐wide association studies have proven to be a powerful
approach to identifying disease‐causing variants. However, for admixed populations, most …

Advantages of genotype imputation with ethnically matched reference panel for rare variant association analyses

M Kals, T Nikopensius, K Läll, K Pärn, T Tõnis Sikka… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Genotype imputation has become a standard procedure prior genome-wide association
studies (GWASs). For common and low-frequency variants, genotype imputation can be …

Precision oncology: Lessons learned and challenges for the future

HT Yang, RH Shah, D Tegay, K Onel - Cancer Management and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The decreasing cost of and increasing capacity of DNA sequencing has led to vastly
increased opportunities for population-level genomic studies to discover novel genomic …

Whole-exome sequencing in the isolated populations of Cilento from South Italy

T Nutile, D Ruggiero, AF Herzig, A Tirozzi, S Nappo… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The present study describes the genetic architecture of the isolated populations of Cilento,
through the analysis of exome sequence data of 245 representative individuals of these …

Familial clustering of cardiac conduction defects and pacemaker insertion

BM Kaess, C Andersson, MS Duncan… - Circulation …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The etiopathogenesis of electrocardiographic bundle branch and
atrioventricular blocks is not fully understood. We investigated familial clustering of cardiac …