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Editorial
. 2022 Oct;10(10):728-730.
doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2022.07.003. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

Genetic Testing for Myocarditis

Elizabeth M McNally  1 , Daniel F Selgrade  2
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Editorial

Genetic Testing for Myocarditis

Elizabeth M McNally et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2022 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: desmoplakin; desmosome; myocarditis.

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Conflict of interest statement

Funding Support and Author Disclosures The authors have received support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Leducq Foundation. Dr McNally serves as a consultant to Amgen, Avidity, AstraZeneca, Cytokinetics, Janssen, PepGen, Pfizer, Stealth Bio, Tenaya, and Invitae, which is unrelated to the content of this paper. Mr Selgrade has reported that he has no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

Comment on

  • Acute Myocarditis Associated With Desmosomal Gene Variants.
    Ammirati E, Raimondi F, Piriou N, Sardo Infirri L, Mohiddin SA, Mazzanti A, Shenoy C, Cavallari UA, Imazio M, Aquaro GD, Olivotto I, Pedrotti P, Sekhri N, Van de Heyning CM, Broeckx G, Peretto G, Guttmann O, Dellegrottaglie S, Scatteia A, Gentile P, Merlo M, Goldberg RI, Reyentovich A, Sciamanna C, Klaassen S, Poller W, Trankle CR, Abbate A, Keren A, Horowitz-Cederboim S, Cadrin-Tourigny J, Tadros R, Annoni GA, Bonoldi E, Toquet C, Marteau L, Probst V, Trochu JN, Kissopoulou A, Grosu A, Kukavica D, Trancuccio A, Gil C, Tini G, Pedrazzini M, Torchio M, Sinagra G, Gimeno JR, Bernasconi D, Valsecchi MG, Klingel K, Adler ED, Camici PG, Cooper LT Jr. Ammirati E, et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2022 Oct;10(10):714-727. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2022.06.013. Epub 2022 Sep 7. JACC Heart Fail. 2022. PMID: 36175056

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