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Mutation identification and prediction for severe cardiomyopathy in Alström syndrome, and review of the literature for cardiomyopathy.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 15 Sept 2022
Dedeoglu Savas, Dede Elif, Oztunc Funda, Gedikbasi Asuman, Yesil Gozde, Dedeoglu Reyhan
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Alström syndrome (ALMS) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder that is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the ALMS1 gene. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is one of the well-recognized features of the syndrome ranging from sudden-onset infantile DCM to adult-onset cardiomyopathy, sometimes of the restrictive hypertrophic form with a poor prognosis. We aimed to evaluate severe...
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