Sudden unexplained death: heritability and diagnostic yield of cardiological and genetic examination in surviving relatives.

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Published in Circulation on July 05, 2005

Authors

Hanno L Tan1, Nynke Hofman, Irene M van Langen, Allard C van der Wal, Arthur A M Wilde

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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