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Familial and sporadic hypertrophic myopathy: differences and similarities in a genotyped population. A long follow-up study.
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 Feb 2008
Brito Dulce, Richard Pascale, Komajda Michel, Madeira Hugo
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BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease associated with mutations in genes encoding cardiac sarcomere proteins. A mutation is identified in two-thirds of cases, and more frequently in familial forms. Doubts remain concerning the true identity of the sporadic form. OBJECTIVE: To compare, in a genotyped population, the phenotypic expression of the disease over time in patients with...
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