Genetics of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

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Familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) should be an "evidence-based" diagnosis derived from clinical and echocardiographic screening of informed and consenting relatives of index patients, and on the examination of clinical reports for deceased relatives. Most familial dilated cardiomyopathy pedigrees show an autosomal pattern of inheritance. Very few of them are X-linked and matrilinear. Autosomal recessive...

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