evere cardiac phenotype with right ventricular predominance n a large cohort of patients with a single missense mutation in he DES gene

. Peter van Tintelen, MD, PhD,* Isabelle C. Van Gelder, MD, PhD, Angeliki Asimaki, PhD, lbert J. H. Suurmeijer, MD, PhD, Ans C. P. Wiesfeld, MD, PhD, Jan D. H. Jongbloed, PhD,* rthur van den Wijngaard, PhD, Jan B. M. Kuks, MD, PhD,** Karin Y. van Spaendonck-Zwarts, MD,* icolette Notermans, MD, PhD, Ludolf Boven, BS,* Freek van den Heuvel, MD, PhD, ermine E. Veenstra-Knol, MD,* Jeffrey E. Saffitz, MD, PhD, Robert M. W. Hofstra, PhD,* aarten P. van den Berg, MD, PhD

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