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Mutations in the cardiac myosin binding protein-C gene on chromosome 11 cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Nature genetics - 1 Dec 1995
Watkins H, Conner D, Thierfelder L, Jarcho J A, MacRae C, McKenna W J, Maron B J, Seidman J G, Seidman C E
Abstract excerpt
Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is an autosomal dominant disorder manifesting as cardiac hypertrophy with myocyte disarray and an increased risk of sudden death. Mutations in five different loci cause FHC and 3 disease genes have been identified: beta cardiac myosin heavy chain, alpha tropomyosin and cardiac troponin T. Because these genes encode contractile proteins, other FHC loci are predicted also...
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