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Sexual dimorphic response to exercise in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-associated MYBPC3-targeted knock-in mice.
Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology - 1 Jun 2015
Najafi Aref, Schlossarek Saskia, van Deel Elza D, van den Heuvel Nikki, Güçlü Ahmet, Goebel Max, Kuster Diederik W D, Carrier Lucie, van der Velden Jolanda
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common genetic cardiac disorder, is frequently caused by mutations in MYBPC3, encoding cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C). Moreover, HCM is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young athletes. Interestingly, SCD is more likely to occur in male than in female athletes. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to sex-specific differences...
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