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Sudden death due to troponin T mutations.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 1 Mar 1997
Moolman J C, Corfield V A, Posen B, Ngumbela K, Seidman C, Brink P A, Watkins H
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OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to verify initial observations of the clinical and prognostic features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by cardiac tropnin T gene mutations. BACKGROUND: The most common cause of sudden cardiac death in the young is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is usually familial. Mutations causing familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have been identified in a number of contractile...
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