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[Malignant hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by the Arg723Gly mutation in beta-myosin heavy chain gene in a Chinese pedigree].
Zhonghua xin xue guan bing za zhi - 1 Mar 2006
Zheng Dong-dong, Yang Jun-hua, Dong Ning-zheng, Yang Xiang-jun, Song Jian-ping, Jiang Ting-bo, Cheng Xu-jie, Li Hong-xia, Zhou Bing-yuan, Zhao Cai-ming, Jiang Wen-ping
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disease and an Arg723Gly mutation in beta-myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) gene was found in 3 Spanish families with malignant HCM. We detected this gene mutation in 5 Chinese pedigrees with hypertensive cardiomyopathy. METHODS: Five Chinese pedigrees with HCM and 80 age-matched normal control subjects were chosen for the...
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