Article
[Review: genetics of familial dilated cardiomyopathy].
Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie - 1 Jun 2005
Amara M E, Villard E, Komajda M
Abstract excerpt
Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most frequent cardiomyopathy. Twenty to 35% of dilated cardiomyopathies are familial. The transmission of the disease is most frequently dominant autosomic. Dilated cardiomyopathy is genetically heterogeneous. Hence, mutations have been identified on 14 genes, and 9 loci have been associated to familial dilated cardiomyopathy. The incriminated mechanisms in the pathogeny of dilated...
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