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Current perspectives in genetic cardiovascular disorders: from basic to clinical aspects.
Heart and vessels - 1 Mar 2014
Kawashiri Masa-aki, Hayashi Kenshi, Konno Tetsuo, Fujino Noboru, Ino Hidekazu, Yamagishi Masakazu
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We summarize recent advances in the clinical genetics of hypercholesterolemia, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and lethal arrhythmia, all of which are monogenic cardiovascular diseases being essential to understanding the heart and circulatory pathophysiology. Among the issues of hypercholesterolemia which play a pivotal role in development of vascular damages, familial hypercholesterolemia is the common...
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