Article
The electrocardiogram is a more sensitive indicator than echocardiography of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in families with a mutation in the MYH7 gene.
British heart journal - 1 Aug 1994
al-Mahdawi S, Chamberlain S, Chojnowska L, Michalak E, Nihoyannopoulos P, Ryan M, Kusnierczyk B, French J A, Gilligan D M, Cleland J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutations in the cardiac beta myosin heavy chain gene causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have been identified, and to assist both diagnosis and prediction of outcome attempts have been made to correlate phenotype and genotype. Two new mutations in codon 403 of the gene in three unrel...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
- Carrier State
- Child
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Primers
- Echocardiography
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data