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Malignant mutations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: fact or fancy?
Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology - 1 Sept 2005
Brito Dulce, Madeira Hugo
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common genetic disease, generally with a benign prognosis. However sudden cardiac death may occur, sometimes as the first manifestation of the disease. More than two hundred different mutations have been described in HCM, in 12 different genes encoding sarcomere proteins. This genetic diversity is accompanied by considerable clinical variability and it is likely...
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