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Genetics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in eastern Finland: few founder mutations with benign or intermediary phenotypes.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2004
Jääskeläinen Pertti, Miettinen Raija, Kärkkäinen Päivi, Toivonen Lauri, Laakso Markku, Kuusisto Johanna
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous myocardial disease caused by mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins. To assess the genetic background and phenotypic expression of HCM in eastern Finland, we screened 35 unrelated patients with HCM from the Kuopio University Hospital area for variants in 9 genes encoding sarcomeric proteins with the PCR-SSCP method. We...
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