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Comprehensive mutation scanning of the dystrophin gene in patients with nonsyndromic X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 18 Sept 2002
Feng Jinong, Yan Jin Yan, Buzin Carolyn H, Sommer Steve S, Towbin Jeffrey A
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OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to perform comprehensive mutation analysis of the dystrophin gene in patients with X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy (XLCM). BACKGROUND: X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy is a familial disease that is characterized by congestive heart failure without clinical signs of skeletal myopathy. Mutations in the dystrophin gene have been associated with the X-linked form of dilated...
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