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Looking into a whale's heart: investigating a genetic basis for cardiomyopathy in a non-model species.
Genome - 1 Aug 2017
Viricel Amélia, Rosel Patricia E
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the pathogenesis of complex diseases can benefit from multi-species comparative studies. Yet these studies rarely include natural populations of non-model species. Here, we focused on the cause of a heart muscle disease, cardiomyopathy (CM), affecting multiple mammalian species including humans, cats, dogs, and certain species of whales. Mutations in genes coding for sarcomeric proteins have been...
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