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Prognostic significance of beta-myosin heavy chain mutations is reflective of their hypertrophic expressivity in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research - 1 Apr 1997
Abchee A, Marian A J
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BACKGROUND: Genotype-phenotype correlation studies consistently have shown that mutations are prognosticators in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). While Arginine (Arg)719Tryptophan (Trp) mutation in the beta-myosin heavy chain (MyHC) gene is associated with a high incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD), the Valine (Val)606Methionine (Met) mutation in the same gene is associated with a near normal...
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