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A Systematic Review of Phenotypic Features Associated With Cardiac Troponin I Mutations in Hereditary Cardiomyopathies.
The Canadian journal of cardiology - 1 Nov 2015
Mogensen Jens, Hey Thomas, Lambrecht Sascha
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BACKGROUND: Genetic investigations have established that mutations in proteins of the contractile unit of the myocardium, known as the sarcomere, may be associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM), and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). It has become clinical practice to offer genetic testing in affected individuals to identify causative mutations, which provides the basis for...
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