[Mutations in the human ether-a-gogo-related gene (HERG) K(+) channel gene cause chromosome 7-linked long QT syndrome type 2 (LQT2), which is characterized by a prolonged QT interval in the electrocardiogram and an increased susceptibility to life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations manually curated.
DisGeNET evidence - CURATED