Calm Modular Mutation - A New Variant in the Calmodulin Gene

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VINU-SAR emailed several scientists who work on calm modular, hoping they could help settle the disagreements. Peter Schwartz, a cardiologist specialising in arrhythmias of genetic origin, wrote back almost immediately. He was on the team that had found a link between mutations in calm modular and sudden death in childhood. In 2015, he had helped to establish a registry of people with known pathogenic mutations in the calm genes called the International Calm Modular and Opathy Registry.

Kathleen Folbigg has spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four children. But in 2018, a group of scientists began gathering evidence that suggested another possibility for the deaths — that at least two of them were attributable to a genetic mutation that can affect heart function. A judicial inquiry in 2019 failed to reverse Folbigg’s conviction, but this month, the researchers will present new evidence at a second inquiry, which could ultimately spell freedom for Folbigg.

This is an audio version of our Feature: She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?

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