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Mutations in the cardiac myosin-binding protein C gene are the predominant cause of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in eastern Finland.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jul 2002
Jääskeläinen Pertti, Kuusisto Johanna, Miettinen Raija, Kärkkäinen Päivi, Kärkkäinen Satu, Heikkinen Sami, Peltola Paula, Pihlajamäki Jussi, Vauhkonen Ilkka, Laakso Markku
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disorder characterized by cardiac hypertrophy caused by mutations in genes encoding sarcomere proteins. This study screened all patients with HCM from the Kuopio University Hospital region in eastern Finland for variants in the cardiac myosin-binding protein C gene ( MYBPC3). All 35 exons of MYBPC3 were screened by the single-strand conformation polymorphism method...
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