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Unraveling the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Obesity-Related Cardiac Defects as a Major Disease Modifier.
Journal of the American Heart Association - 17 Nov 2020
Nollet Edgar E, Westenbrink B Daan, de Boer Rudolf A, Kuster Diederik W D, van der Velden Jolanda
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiomyopathy and is characterized by asymmetric septal thickening and diastolic dysfunction. More than 1500 mutations in genes encoding sarcomere proteins are associated with HCM. However, the genotype-phenotype relationship in HCM is incompletely understood and involves modification by additional disease hits. Recent cohort studies identify obesity...
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