Migration of Disease (IMAGE)

University of Utah Health

Migration of Disease

Caption

Over 300 years, generations of a family with an inherited heart arrhythmia migrated from Denmark to the eastern U.S., then to the Mountain West, bringing the disease gene with them.

Credit

C Hateley, S., Lopez-Izquierdo, A., Jou, C.J. et al. Nat Comm 12, 6442 (2021)

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