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Diagnostic Yield of Whole Exome Sequencing in Pediatric Dilated Cardiomyopathy
8 Aug 2017
Abstract excerpt
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heritable, genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by progressive heart failure. DCM typically remains clinically silent until adulthood, yet symptomatic disease can develop in childhood. We sought to identify the genetic basis of pediatric DCM in 15 sporadic and three affected-siblings cases, comprised of 21 affected children (mean age, five years) whose parents had...
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