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Inherited cardiomyopathies.
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society - 1 Jan 2014
Towbin Jeffrey A
Abstract excerpt
Cardiomyopathies (ie, diseases of the heart muscle) are major causes of morbidity and mortality. A significant percentage of patients with cardiomyopathies have genetic-based, inheritable disease and, over the past 2 decades the genetic causes of these disorders have been increasingly discovered. The genes causing these disorders when they are mutated appear to encode proteins that frame a "final common pathway"...
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