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The genetics of dilated cardiomyopathy.
Current opinion in cardiology - 1 May 2010
Dellefave Lisa, McNally Elizabeth M
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: More than 40 different individual genes have been implicated in the inheritance of dilated cardiomyopathy. For a subset of these genes, mutations can lead to a spectrum of cardiomyopathy that extends to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and left ventricular noncompaction. In nearly all cases, there is an increased risk of arrhythmias. With some genetic mutations, extracardiac manifestations are...
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