Molecular genetics of cardiomyopathies.

Abstract excerpt

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHCM) is a heterogeneous disease with an autosomal dominant Mendelian inheritance and variable penetrance. Several mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain (beta MHC) gene, the first gene identified for this disease, have been described that co-segregate with...

Topics

• Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
• Chromosome Aberrations
• Chromosome Disorders
• Chromosome Mapping
• Genes, Dominant
• Humans
• Molecular Biology
• Mutation
• Myosins