Gene on chromosome 21 seems to be involved in cardiac arythmia
Researchers of the AMC found strong evidence that one particular gene can predict heart arythmia after a heart attack.
Sudden death from cardiac arythmia is the cause of almost 20 percent of deaths in the US and Europe. There seems to be a strong link between a defect in chromosome 21 and the occurence of life threatening cardiac arythmia during an acute heart attack. That is what Connie Bezzina and Arthur Wilde of the AMC write. They publish their findings in the scientific magazine Nature Genetics on 11 July 2010.
