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Screening for Mitochondrial tRNA Mutations in 318 Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2022
Qi Yujuan, Wu Zhenhua, Bai Yaobang, Jiao Yan, Li Peijun
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OBJECTIVES: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a complex cardiovascular disease with unknown etiology. Although nuclear genes play active roles in DCM, mitochondrial dysfunction was believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of DCM. The objective of this study was to analyze the association between mitochondrial tRNA (mt-tRNA) mutations and DCM. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a mutational analysis of mt-tRNA...
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