What is Calmodulin 2, recently seen in news?

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 9 March 2021

What is Calmodulin 2, recently seen in news?

A. Space Craft

B. Asteroid

C. Protein

D. Vaccine

Explanation:

Leading scientists and medical experts are calling for the pardon of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg after a recent study showed that her victims four of her children may have died of natural causes. Medical experts have argued that her children died due to a rare genetic defect. They inherited a genetic mutation from their mother called CALM2. Calmodulin 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CALM2 gene. Mutations in CALM2 are associated to cardiac arrhythmias.

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