9 research outputs found

    A Save Environment of Care: Lessons from COVID-19

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    Ensuring a safe environment for patients, caregivers, and ancillary staff is job one for hospitals. The unique challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic required hospitals to create/recreate spaces and processes in the midst of a crisis. How might the lessons-learned inform environments of care in the future? Hosted by: Texas Hospital Association Presentation: 1:01:0

    Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization.

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    The QT interval, an electrocardiographic measure reflecting myocardial repolarization, is a heritable trait. QT prolongation is a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) and could indicate the presence of the potentially lethal mendelian long-QT syndrome (LQTS). Using a genome-wide association and replication study in up to 100,000 individuals, we identified 35 common variant loci associated with QT interval that collectively explain ∼8-10% of QT-interval variation and highlight the importance of calcium regulation in myocardial repolarization. Rare variant analysis of 6 new QT interval-associated loci in 298 unrelated probands with LQTS identified coding variants not found in controls but of uncertain causality and therefore requiring validation. Several newly identified loci encode proteins that physically interact with other recognized repolarization proteins. Our integration of common variant association, expression and orthogonal protein-protein interaction screens provides new insights into cardiac electrophysiology and identifies new candidate genes for ventricular arrhythmias, LQTS and SCD

    Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD)

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    Alternative exon splicing and differential expression in pancreatic islets reveals candidate genes and pathways implicated in early diabetes development

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