Current Challenges in Cardiovascular Molecular Diagnostics

• Main Author: Carlo Napolitano (auth)
• Other Authors: Jeffrey A. Towbin (auth), Guia Guffanti (auth), Luisa Mestroni (auth), Valeria Novelli (auth), Matteo Vatta (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; genetic variants; Cardiovascular Diseases; Genetic Testing; channelopathy; variant interpretation; NGS; Sudden cardiac death; cardiomyopathy; Cardiovascular genetics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The field of cardiovascular genetics has tremendously benefited from the recent application of massive parallel sequencing technology also referred to as next generation sequencing (NGS). However, along with the discovery of additional genes associated with human cardiac diseases, the analysis of la...