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The Phenotype and Outcome of Infantile Cardiomyopathy Caused by a Homozygous ELAC2 Mutation.
Cardiology - 1 Jan 2000
Shinwari Zarghuna M A, Almesned Abdulrahman, Alakhfash Ali, Al-Rashdan Ahmad M, Faqeih Eissa, Al-Humaidi Zainab, Alomrani Ahmed, Alghamdi Malak, Colak Dilek, Alwadai Abdullah, Rababh Monther, Al-Fayyadh Majid, Al-Hassnan Zuhair N
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OBJECTIVE: Cardiomyopathy (CMP) in children is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders. Disease-associated mutations have been identified in more than 50 genes. Recently, mutations in the mitochondrial tRNA processing gene, ELAC2, were reported to be associated with the recessively inherited form of hypertrophic CMP (HCM). This study is aimed at describing the cardiac phenotype and outcome...
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