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What Causes Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy?
The American journal of cardiology - 15 Sept 2022
Maron Bradley A, Wang Rui-Sheng, Carnethon Mercedes R, Rowin Ethan J, Loscalzo Joseph, Maron Barry J, Maron Martin S
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a global and relatively common cause of patient morbidity and mortality and is among the first reported monogenic cardiac diseases. For 30 years, the basic etiology of HCM has been attributed largely to variants in individual genes encoding cardiac sarcomere proteins, with the implication that HCM is fundamentally a genetic disease. However, data from clinical and network...
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