Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the genetic determinants of clinical disease expression.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), defined clinically by the presence of unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy, is the most common inherited cardiac disorder. This condition is the major cause of sudden death in the young (<30 years of age) and in athletes. The clinical phenotype is heterogeneous, and mutations in a number of sarcomeric contractile-protein genes are responsible for causing the disease in...

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