Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a paradigm of the cardiac hypertrophic response to injury.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an autosomal dominant disease caused by mutations in sarcomeric proteins. It is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of an increased external load, and myofibrillar disarray. While hypertrophy is a common cardiac response to injury, disarray is the pathological hallmark of HCM. A large number of mutations in genes coding for sarcomeric proteins, ie the...

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