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Sex hormone receptor gene variation associated with phenotype in male hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Aug 2008
Lind Joanne M, Chiu Christine, Ingles Jodie, Yeates Laura, Humphries Stephen E, Heather Alison K, Semsarian Christopher
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a clinically heterogeneous disease, which suggests that a number of factors exist which modify disease outcome. Gender may be one such factor as more males present with the disease compared with females. The aim of the present study was to determine if an association exists between genetic variation in sex hormone receptors and the development of left ventricular hypertrophy...
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