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Yield of genetic testing in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Mayo Clinic proceedings - 1 Jun 2005
Van Driest Sara L, Ommen Steve R, Tajik A Jamil, Gersh Bernard J, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine the clinical parameters of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) that correlated significantly with the presence of an identifiable sarcomeric mutation. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Previous comprehensive mutational analyses of all protein-coding exons of 8 sarcomeric genes revealed pathogenic mutations in 147 (38%) of 389 unrelated patients seen at the HCM outpatient clinic at the Mayo Clinic in...
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