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A mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 3 May 1996
Geisterfer-Lowrance A A, Christe M, Conner D A, Ingwall J S, Schoen F J, Seidman C E, Seidman J G
Abstract excerpt
A mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) was generated by the introduction of an Arg 403 --> Gln mutation into the alpha cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene. Homozygous alpha MHC 403/403 mice died 7 days after birth, and sedentary heterozygous alpha MHC 403/+ mice survived for 1 year. Cardiac histopathology and dysfunction in the alpha MHC 403/+ mice resembled human FHC. Cardiac dysfunction...
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