Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--pathology and pathogenesis.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2559.1995.tb00267.x

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--pathology and pathogenesis.

Histopathology - 1 Jun 1995

Davies M J, McKenna W J

Abstract excerpt

Genes on five loci on separate chromosomes are responsible for a familial disease in which all or part of the ventricular muscle undergoes thickening with a histological picture of irregular hypertrophy and disorganized arrangement of myocytes (disarray). The three genes identified so far encode...

Topics

Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
Chromosome Mapping
Genes
Heart Septum
Heart Ventricles
Heterozygote
Humans
Mutation
Myocardium
Myosins
Phenotype

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