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Left ventricular hypertrophy caused by a novel nonsense mutation in FHL1.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 May 2013
Gossios Thomas D, Lopes Luis R, Elliott Perry M
Abstract excerpt
Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a hereditary muscular disorder, characterized by contractures, progressive muscular wasting and cardiac involvement. The majority of EDMD patients harbor mutations in the lamin A/C (LMNA) and emerin (STA) genes. Emerging data implicate mutations in FHL1 (four and a half LIM protein 1) gene, located in chromosome Xq26, in EDMD pathogenesis. FHL1 is mainly expressed in...
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