Clinical features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by an Arg278Cys missense mutation in the cardiac troponin T gene

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 246-249

  Theopistou, Artemisia ^a,b   Anastasakis, Aristidis ^a   Miliou, Antigoni ^a   Rigopoulos, Angelos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC TROPONIN T GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGININE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CYSTEINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; TROPONIN T;

EID: 3142572751     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.03.077     Document Type: Article

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