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  • 2018 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Connie R. Bezzina is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record in the areas of cardiology and molecular biology. Their research predominantly focuses on cardiac electrophysiology, cardiomyopathies, genetic associations, and congenital heart defects.

The scientist's main fields of study are Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Epidemiology, and Surgery.

Research topics covered by Connie R. Bezzina include:

  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Connie R. Bezzina are:

  • 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies (2023), European Heart Journal
  • European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) Expert Consensus Statement on the state of genetic testing for cardiac diseases (2022), EP Europace
  • Common genetic variants and modifiable risk factors underpin hypertrophic cardiomyopathy susceptibility and expressivity (2021), Nature Genetics
  • Shared genetic pathways contribute to risk of hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies with opposite directions of effect (2021), Nature Genetics
  • Inherited cardiac arrhythmias (2020), Nature Reviews Disease Primers

The scientist frequently publishes in high-impact venues, including:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Heart Rhythm
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Nature Genetics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Rafik Tadros
  • Roddy Walsh
  • Arthur A.M. Wilde
  • Sean J. Jurgens
  • James S. Ware

In recognition of their contributions to science, Connie R. Bezzina was awarded membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • A Single Na+ Channel Mutation Causing Both Long-QT and Brugada Syndromes

    C Bezzina;MW Veldkamp;van den Maarten Berg;AV Postma

  • Right Ventricular Fibrosis and Conduction Delay in a Patient With Clinical Signs of Brugada Syndrome A Combined Electrophysiological, Genetic, Histopathologic, and Computational Study

    Ruben Coronel;Simona Casini;Tamara T. Koopmann;Francien J.G. Wilms-Schopman

  • Sodium channel β1 subunit mutations associated with Brugada syndrome and cardiac conduction disease in humans

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Hiroshi Watanabe;Tamara T. Koopmann;Solena Le Scouarnec;Solena Le Scouarnec;Solena Le Scouarnec;Tao Yang

  • Common variants at SCN5A-SCN10A and HEY2 are associated with Brugada syndrome, a rare disease with high risk of sudden cardiac death

    Connie R Bezzina;Julien Barc;Yuka Mizusawa;Carol Ann Remme

  • A sodium-channel mutation causes isolated cardiac conduction disease

    Hanno L. Tan;Margreet T. E. Bink-Boelkens;Connie R. Bezzina;Prakash C. Viswanathan

  • Genotype-phenotype relationship in Brugada syndrome: electrocardiographic features differentiate SCN5A-related patients from non–SCN5A-related patients

    Jeroen P.P Smits;Lars Eckardt;Vincent Probst;Connie R Bezzina

  • Two Distinct Congenital Arrhythmias Evoked by a Multidysfunctional Na+ Channel

    Marieke W. Veldkamp;Prakash C. Viswanathan;Connie Bezzina;Antonius Baartscheer

  • A Cardiac Sodium Channel Mutation Cosegregates With a Rare Connexin40 Genotype in Familial Atrial Standstill

    W. Antoinette Groenewegen;Mehran Firouzi;Connie R. Bezzina;Saskia Vliex

  • Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization

    Dan E. Arking;Sara L. Pulit;Sara L. Pulit;Sara L. Pulit;Lia Crotti;Pim Van Der Harst

  • Familial sudden death is an important risk factor for primary ventricular fibrillation: a case-control study in acute myocardial infarction patients.

    Lukas R.C. Dekker;Connie R. Bezzina;José P.S. Henriques;Michael W. Tanck

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-analysis across 32 Studies Identifies Multiple Lipid Loci

    Folkert W. Asselbergs;Yiran Guo;Yiran Guo;Erik P A Van Iperen;Suthesh Sivapalaratnam

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Analysis Identifies Novel Variants for Coronary Artery Disease

    Adam S. Butterworth;Peter S. Braund;Martin Farrall;Robert J. Hardwick

  • Common Sodium Channel Promoter Haplotype in Asian Subjects Underlies Variability in Cardiac Conduction

    Connie R. Bezzina;Wataru Shimizu;Ping Yang;Tamara T. Koopmann

  • Genetic variation in SCN10A influences cardiac conduction

    John C Chambers;John C Chambers;Jing Zhao;Cesare M.N. Terracciano;Connie R. Bezzina

  • Cardiomyocytes Derived From Pluripotent Stem Cells Recapitulate Electrophysiological Characteristics of an Overlap Syndrome of Cardiac Sodium Channel Disease

    Richard P. Davis;Simona Casini;Cathelijne W. van den Berg;Maaike Hoekstra

  • Type of SCN5A mutation determines clinical severity and degree of conduction slowing in loss-of-function sodium channelopathies

    Paola G. Meregalli;Hanno L. Tan;Vincent Probst;Tamara T. Koopmann

  • Genetics of Sudden Cardiac Death

    Connie R. Bezzina;Najim Lahrouchi;Silvia G. Priori

  • Cardiac sodium channel overlap syndromes: different faces of SCN5A mutations.

    Carol Ann Remme;Arthur A.M. Wilde;Connie R. Bezzina

  • Utility of Post-Mortem Genetic Testing in Cases of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome

    Najim Lahrouchi;Hariharan Raju;Elisabeth M. Lodder;Efstathios Papatheodorou

  • Compound Heterozygosity for Mutations (W156X and R225W) in SCN5A Associated With Severe Cardiac Conduction Disturbances and Degenerative Changes in the Conduction System

    Connie R. Bezzina;Martin B. Rook;W.Antoinette Groenewegen;Lucas J. Herfst

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur A.M. Wilde
Arthur A.M. Wilde University of Amsterdam
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Stefan Kääb
Stefan Kääb Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Elijah R. Behr
Elijah R. Behr St George's, University of London
Thomas Meitinger
Thomas Meitinger Technical University of Munich
Christopher Newton-Cheh
Christopher Newton-Cheh Harvard University
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Vincent M. Christoffels
Vincent M. Christoffels University of Amsterdam
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester

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