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Double or compound sarcomere mutations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a potential link to sudden death in the absence of conventional risk factors.
Heart rhythm - 1 Jan 2012
Maron Barry J, Maron Martin S, Semsarian Christopher
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BACKGROUND: Risk stratification strategies employing sarcomere gene mutational analysis have proved imprecise in identifying high-risk patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Therefore, additional genetic risk markers that reliably determine which patients are predisposed to sudden death are needed. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether multiple disease-causing sarcomere...
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