Molecular genetics of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Abstract excerpt

Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is the first inherited primary cardiomyopathy for which genetic studies have been conducted. It is an autosomal dominant inherited disease, and represents an important cause of sudden death particularly in otherwise healthy young individuals such as athletes. The first chromosomal locus has been mapped on chromosome 14 at q11-q12 where the putative gene is that encoding...

Topics

• Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
• Humans
• Mutation
• Myosins