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. 2020 Sep 10;21(18):6615. doi: 10.3390/ijms21186615
ACM Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy
ACMG-AMP American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
aDCM Arrhythmogenic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
AD Autosomal dominant
AF Atrial Fibrillation
AHA American Heart Association
AJ Adherens Junction
ALVC Arrhythmogenic Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
AP/MS Affinity Purification and Mass Spectrometry
AR Autosomal recessive
ARVC Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
ARVD Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
ASD Atrial Septal Defect
BiV Biventricular
BivACM Biventricular Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy
BrS Brugada syndrome
CMP Cardiomyopathy
CMR Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
CPVT Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
CRISPR Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
DAD Delayed After Depolarisations
DCM Dilated Cardiomyopathy
ECG Electrocardiogram
ENCODE Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
ESC European Society of Cardiology
FDG-PET 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
G+ Genotype negative
G- Genotype negative
GSEA Gene set enrichment analysis
GTEx Genotype-Tissue expression project
GWAS Genome-wide association studies
HCM Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
HF Heart failure
hiPSC-CMs Human induced pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocytes
HNDC Hypokinetic Non-dilated Cardiomyopathy
HRS Heart Rhythm Society
ICD Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator
ID Intercalated Disc
ISFC International Society and Federation of Cardiology
LBBB Left Bundle Branch Block
LGE Late gadolinium enhancement
LQTS Long QT syndrome
LV Left ventricle
LVEF Left ventricular ejection fraction
MPRAs Massive Parallel Reporter Assays
MR Mitral Regurgitation
NSVT Non-Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia
P+ Phenotype positive
P- Phenotype negative
PHTN Pulmonary Hypertension
PVC Premature Ventricular Contraction
RCM Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
RV Right ventricle
RVOT Right ventricular outflow tract
RWMA Regional wall motion abnormality
SAGE Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
SC Subcutaneous
SCD Sudden Cardiac Death
SERCA Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase
SR Sarcoplasmic reticulum
TFC Task Force Criteria
TV Transvenous
TWI T Wave Inversion
UTR Untranslated regions
VT Ventricular Tachycardia
VTA Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia
WES Whole exome sequencing
WGS Whole genome sequencing
WHO World Health Organisation