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A high risk phenotype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with a compound genotype of two mutated beta-myosin heavy chain genes.
Human genetics - 1 Mar 1998
Jeschke B, Uhl K, Weist B, Schröder D, Meitinger T, Döhlemann C, Vosberg H P
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous myocardial disease that is in most cases familial and transmitted in a dominant fashion. The most frequently affected gene codes for the cardiac (ventricular) beta-myosin heavy chain. We have investigated the genetic cause of an isolated case of HCM, which was marked by an extremely severe phenotype and a very early age of onset. HCM...
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