Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

The history and geographic distribution of a KCNQ1 atrial fibrillation risk allele

  • Shannon Hateley,
  • Angelica Lopez-Izquierdo,
  • Chuanchau J. Jou,
  • Scott Cho,
  • Joshua G. Schraiber,
  • Shiya Song,
  • Colin T. Maguire,
  • Natalia Torres,
  • Michael Riedel,
  • Neil E. Bowles,
  • Cammon B. Arrington,
  • Brett J. Kennedy,
  • Susan P. Etheridge,
  • Shuping Lai,
  • Chase Pribble,
  • Lindsay Meyers,
  • Derek Lundahl,
  • Jake Byrnes,
  • Julie M. Granka,
  • Christopher A. Kauffman,
  • Gordon Lemmon,
  • Steven Boyden,
  • W. Scott Watkins,
  • Mary Anne Karren,
  • Stacey Knight,
  • J. Brent Muhlestein,
  • John F. Carlquist,
  • Jeffrey L. Anderson,
  • Kenneth G. Chahine,
  • Khushi U. Shah,
  • Catherine A. Ball,
  • Ivor J. Benjamin,
  • Mark Yandell,
  • Martin Tristani-Firouzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26741-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Many rare high-impact variants have been associated with disease, but the origins and functional impact are not always explored. Here, the authors trace the ancestry of a rare high impact atrial fibrillation allele in KCNQ1, and use iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes to characterize the effect of the allele.