Abstract:OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Sudden death in the young (SDY) occurs in people between 1 and 40 years of age who do not have a known premortem risk factor for early death. Cardiovascular diseases account for the majority of causes of SDY. Sequencing of genes associated with congenital arrhythmia susceptibility and familial cardiomyopathy reveals pathogenic variants in 30% of postmortem cases (often called “molecular autopsy”). However, better data are needed to determine the prevalence of phenotype and genotype ab… Show more
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