Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: diagnostic and therapeutic implications of recent genetic studies.

doi:10.1016/s1357-4310(96)10030-7

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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: diagnostic and therapeutic implications of recent genetic studies.

Molecular medicine today - 1 Sept 1996

Bachinski L L, Roberts R

Abstract excerpt

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the first primary cardiomyopathy to have yielded to the techniques of modern molecular genetics. In the past few years, four genes responsible for this disease have been identified, all of which code for sarcomeric structural proteins. In addition, structur...

Topics

Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
Heart
Humans
Microscopy, Electron
Models, Biological
Muscle Proteins
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic

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