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Evidence for autosomal recessive inheritance of infantile dilated cardiomyopathy: studies from the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
Pediatric research - 1 Dec 2000
Seliem M A, Mansara K B, Palileo M, Ye X, Zhang Z, Benson D W
Abstract excerpt
Familial dilated cardiomyopathy is being increasingly recognized, but affected individuals <10 y are rarely identified. We describe the natural history of dilated cardiomyopathy and evaluate the mode of inheritance among infants of Arab descent from the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. We evaluated 55 consecutive cases of dilated cardiomyopathy in patients <10 y of age seen during a 5-y interval....
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