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A transgenic rabbit model for human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
15 Dec 1999
Abstract excerpt
Certain mutations in genes for sarcomeric proteins cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We have developed a transgenic rabbit model for HCM caused by a common point mutation in the beta-myosin heavy chain (MyHC) gene, R400Q. Wild-type and mutant human beta-MyHC cDNAs were cloned 3' to a 7-kb murine beta-MyHC promoter. We injected purified transgenes into fertilized zygotes to generate two lines each of the...
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