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A Potential Oligogenic Etiology of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Classic Single-Gene Disorder.
Circulation research - 31 Mar 2017
Li Lili, Bainbridge Matthew Neil, Tan Yanli, Willerson James T, Marian Ali J
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RATIONALE: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a prototypic single-gene disease caused mainly by mutations in genes encoding sarcomere proteins. Despite the remarkable advances, the causal genes in ≈40% of the HCM cases remain unknown, typically in small families and sporadic cases, wherein cosegregation could not be established. OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the missing causal genes in HCM is, in part,...
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