Thursday, January 21, 2010
The CHARGE consortium, in which the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing participates, has identified nine genomic regions that are associated with the PR interval. The PR interval reflects atrial and atrioventricular nodal conduction, which can be measured in an electrocardiogram (ECG). A prolonged PR interval predisposes to the most common human form of arrhythmia: atrial fibrillation.
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