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Electrophysiology techniques are used to correlate genotype with molecular phenotype to determine which mutations identified in patients diagnosed with LQTS are disease causing, and which are benign. These investigations are usually done using heterologous expression in cell lines, and often, epitope fusion tags are used to enable isolation and identification of the protein of interest.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods and results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Here, we demonstrate through electrophysiology techniques and immunohistochemistry, that both N\u2010terminal and C\u2010terminal <jats:italic>myc<\/jats:italic> fusion tags may perturb hERG protein channel expression and kinetics of the I<jats:sub>Kr<\/jats:sub> current. 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