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Lamin A/C mutations associated with familial and sporadic cases of dilated cardiomyopathy in Koreans.
Experimental & molecular medicine - 28 Feb 2007
Song Kyuyoung, Dubé Marie Pierre, Lim Jiyoung, Hwang Ilsun, Lee Inchul, Kim Jae-Joong
Abstract excerpt
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by cardiac dilation and systolic dysfunction. So far sixteen genes have been shown to cause autosomal dominant familial dilated cardiomyopathy (FDC). We identified a large Korean family from the Jeju island showing a clear Mendelian inheritance of FDC. A genomewide linkage scan at 9 cM marker density identified a peak multipoint LOD score of 2.82 at D1S195....
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