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[Titin gene mutations in Chinese patients with dilated cardiomyopathy].
Zhonghua xin xue guan bing za zhi - 1 Dec 2008
LIU Xing, RAO Li, ZHOU Bin, ZHANG Bei-lei, WANG Yan-yun, CHEN Bin, WU Yang, HUANG Ping
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Titin is recently known as the largest protein which exists in the striated muscle sarcomere and is dynamic both in biomechanics properties and biochemical functions. Four possible disease-associated mutations located in three exons (3, 14, 49) of titin gene (TTN) have been identified in Japanese DCM patients in 2002. We observed the possible association of TTN mutation in Chinese patients with DCM....
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