Sarah Saxton, Amy R Kontorovich, Dawei Wang, Bo Zhou, Sung Yon Um, Ying Lin, Lisa Rojas, Erin Tyll, Gregory Dickinson, Michelle Stram, Cynthia K Harris, Bruce D Gelb, Barbara A Sampson, Jason Graham, Yingying Tang
BACKGROUND: Few reports describe the yield of postmortem genetic testing from medical examiners' offices or correlate genetic test results with autopsy-confirmed phenotypes from a large cohort. OBJECTIVES: To report results from cardiomyopathy- and cardiac arrhythmia-associated genetic testing in conjunction with autopsy findings of cases investigated at the United States' largest medical examiner office. METHODS: Postmortem cases tested from 2015 to 2022 with a cardiomyopathy- and cardiac arrhythmia-associated gene panel were reviewed...
May 20, 2024: Cardiovascular Pathology: the Official Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology