Genetic testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: ongoing voyage from exploration to clinical exploitation

More than two decades have elapsed since the discovery that sarcomere gene defects cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Since then, genetic testing in HCM has developed and expanded, and is now widely available as a potential clinical service in the Western countries. In the meantime, h...

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Main Authors: Iacopo Olivotto, Heba Sh. Kassem, Francesca Girolami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-07-01
Series:Cardiogenetics
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Online Access:http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/cardiogen/article/view/91