Cell　　Volume 135, Issue 6, 12 December 2008

　　Mutation in Nuclear Pore Component NUP155 Leads to Atrial
Fibrillation and Early Sudden Cardiac Death

　　Xianqin Zhang1, 2, 5, Shenghan Chen1, 5, Shin Yoo1, 5, Susmita
Chakrabarti1, 5, Teng Zhang1, 5, Tie Ke1, 2, 5, Carlos Oberti1, 3, 5,
Sandro L. Yong1, Fang Fang1, 4, Lin Li1, Roberto de la Fuente3, Lejin
Wang1, 2, Qiuyun Chen1 and Qing Kenneth Wang1, 2, 4, ,

　　1Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute,
Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Department of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Department of
Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of
Case Western Reserve University, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH
44195, USA

　　2Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, College of Life Science
and Technology and Center for Human Genome Research, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

　　3Department of Cardiology, Ospedale Italiano Umberto I, Montevideo
11600, Uruguay

　　4Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland,
OH 44107, USA

5 These authors contributed equally to this work

　　Received 2 May 2008; revised 20 August 2008; accepted 6 October
2008. Published: December 11, 2008. Available online 11 December 2008.