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Mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene in southern Chinese families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
The Journal of international medical research - 1 Jan 2000
Zheng D D, Yang J H, Tao Q, Geng M, Lin J, Yang X J, Song J P, Li H X, Han L H, Jiang W P
Abstract excerpt
In this study, 14 unrelated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) probands were scanned by polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis and DNA sequencing. Three mis-sense mutations of the beta-myosin heavy chain gene, MYH7, were found: valine (Val) 606 methionine (Met), arginine (Arg) 694 leucine (Leu), and Arg 723 glycine (Gly). All are reported here for the first time in Chinese...
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