Shared Genetic Causes of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Children and Adults
Author(s) -
Hiroyuki Morita,
Heidi L. Rehm,
Andres Menesses,
Barbara McDonough,
Amy E. Roberts,
Raju Kucherlapati,
Jeffrey A. Towbin,
Jonathan G. Seidman,
Christine E. Seidman
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa075463
Subject(s) - myh7 , missense mutation , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , medicine , cardiomyopathy , mutation , gene mutation , muscle hypertrophy , left ventricular hypertrophy , genetics , cardiology , gene , heart failure , biology , blood pressure , gene isoform
The childhood onset of idiopathic cardiac hypertrophy that occurs without a family history of cardiomyopathy can portend a poor prognosis. Despite morphologic similarities to genetic cardiomyopathies of adulthood, the contribution of genetics to childhood-onset hypertrophy is unknown.
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