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Danon Disease as an Underrecognized Cause of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Children
7 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Some patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) or left ventricular hypertrophy also present with skeletal myopathy and Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome; mutations in the gene encoding the lysosome-associated protein-2 (LAMP-2) have been identified in these patients, suggesting that some of these patients have Danon disease. In this study we investigated the frequency of LAMP2 mutations in an...
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