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Different expressivity of a ventricular essential myosin light chain gene Ala57Gly mutation in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
American heart journal - 1 Feb 2001
Lee W, Hwang T H, Kimura A, Park S W, Satoh M, Nishi H, Harada H, Toyama J, Park J E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease of the sarcomere. Molecular genetic studies have shown that familial HCM involves mutations in 8 different genes that encode proteins of the myofibrillar apparatus. METHODS: We thoroughly searched these genes to find the mutations in 38 probands of unrelated families with familial HCM. RESULTS: We found a...
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