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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain and troponin I mutations.
Pediatric cardiology - 1 Jul 2008
Frazier Aisha, Judge Daniel P, Schulman Steven P, Johnson Nicole, Holmes Kathryn W, Murphy Anne M
Abstract excerpt
We report an African American family with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in which an individual with severe disease has alterations in two sarcomeric protein genes, cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain (MYH7) and troponin I (TNNI3). Each of her children has only one of these mutations. Although novel, the MYH7 mutation disrupts a conserved amino acid, and other missense substitutions at this position are known to cause...
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