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Properties of mutant contractile proteins that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Cardiovascular research - 1 Oct 1999
Redwood C S, Moolman-Smook J C, Watkins H
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most frequently occurring inherited cardiac disorders, affecting up to 1 in 500 of the population. Molecular genetic analysis has shown that HCM is a disease of the sarcomere, caused by mutations in certain contractile protein genes. To date seven disease-associated genes have been identified, those encoding beta-myosin heavy chain, both regulatory and essential...
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