Clinical implications of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with mutations in the α-tropomyosin gene

Heart

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-65

  Yamauchi Takihara, Keiko ^a   Nakajima Taniguchi, Chieko ^a   Matsui, Hideo ^a   Fujio, Yasushi ^a   Kunisada, Keita ^a   Nagata, Seiki ^b   Kishimoto, Tadamitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; phenotypic analysis; prognosis; tropomyosin gene mutation

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0029794498     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.76.1.63     Document Type: Article

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