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Private mitochondrial DNA variants in danish patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Hagen Christian M, Aidt Frederik H, Havndrup Ole, Hedley Paula L, Jensen Morten K, Kanters Jørgen K, Pham Tam T, Bundgaard Henning, Christiansen Michael
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic cardiac disease primarily caused by mutations in genes coding for sarcomeric proteins. A molecular-genetic etiology can be established in ~60% of cases. Evolutionarily conserved mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups are susceptibility factors for HCM. Several polymorphic mtDNA variants are associated with a variety of late-onset degenerative diseases and affect...
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