Article
Molecular etiology of idiopathic cardiomyopathy in Asian populations.
Journal of cardiology - 1 Jan 2001
Kimura A, Ito-Satoh M, Hayashi T, Takahashi M, Arimura T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Idiopathic cardiomyopathy was by definition a disease of unknown etiology and there are two major clinical forms, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. Recent molecular genetic analyses have now revealed that mutations in genes for sarcomere cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy leading to a hypothesis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as sarcomeropathy. On the other hand, mutations in...
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