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Reading Frame Repair of TTN Truncation Variants Restores Titin Quantity and Functions.
Circulation - 18 Jan 2022
Romano Robert, Ghahremani Shahnaz, Zimmerman Talia, Legere Nicholas, Thakar Ketan, Ladha Feria A, Pettinato Anthony M, Hinson J Travis
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Titin truncation variants (TTNtvs) are the most common inheritable risk factor for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a disease with high morbidity and mortality. The pathogenicity of TTNtvs has been associated with structural localization as A-band variants overlapping myosin heavy chain-binding domains are more pathogenic than I-band variants by incompletely understood mechanisms. Demonstrating why...
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