Disease mutations in striated muscle myosins

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Over 1000 disease-causing missense mutations have been found in human β-cardiac, α-cardiac, embryonic and adult fast myosin 2a myosin heavy chains. Most of these are found in human β-cardiac myosin heavy chain. Mutations in β-cardiac myosin cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy predominantly, whereas those in α-cardiac are associated with many types of heart disease, of which the most common is dilated...

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