Low prevalence of cardiac troponin T mutations in a Greek hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cohort

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 966-967

  Miliou, Antigoni ^a,e   Anastasakis, A ^a   D'Cruz, L G ^b   Theopistou, A ^a   Rigopoulos, A ^a,d   Rizos, I ^a,d   Stamatelopoulos, S ^c   Toutouzas, P ^a   Stefanadis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Errikos Dinan Hospital   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CYSTEINE; GENOMIC DNA; PRIMER DNA; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GREECE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; TROPONIN T;

EID: 21044450647     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.029819     Document Type: Article

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