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Genetic background of Japanese patients with pediatric hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathy.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2018
Hayashi Takeharu, Tanimoto Kousuke, Hirayama-Yamada Kayoko, Tsuda Etsuko, Ayusawa Mamoru, Nunoda Shinichi, Hosaki Akira, Kimura Akinori
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) present a high risk for sudden cardiac death in pediatric patients. The aim of this study was to identify disease-associated genetic variants in Japanese patients with pediatric HCM and RCM. We analyzed 67 cardiomyopathy-associated genes in 46 HCM and 7 RCM patients diagnosed before 16 years of age using a next-generation sequencing system. We...
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