| Literature DB >> 35587846 |
Aarthi Manoharan1, Ravikumar Sambandam2, Vishnu Bhat Ballambattu1.
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia and a major risk factor for stroke, heart failure, and premature death. AF has a strong genetic predisposition. This review highlights the recent findings on the genetics of AF from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and high-throughput sequencing studies. The consensus from GWAS implies that AF is both polygenic and pleiotropic in nature. With the advent of whole-genome sequencing and whole-exome sequencing, rare variants associated with AF pathogenesis have been identified. The recent studies have contributed towards better understanding of AF pathogenesis.Entities:
Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Genome-wide association studies; Whole-exome sequencing; Whole-genome sequencing
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35587846 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-022-07420-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Biol Rep ISSN: 0301-4851 Impact factor: 2.742