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Familial clustering of autoimmune diseases in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
The American journal of cardiology - 1 May 2004
Limas Constantinos J, Iakovis Panayotis, Anyfantakis Alexandros, Kroupis Christos, Cokkinos Dennis V
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we examined the hypothesis that dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) shares genetic risk factors with other diseases of presumed autoimmune etiology, and, therefore, the same multiple genes in combination with environmental factors lead to numerous different autoimmune diseases. In accordance with this hypothesis, we showed an increased prevalence of autoimmune diseases in first-degree relatives of...
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