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Query: UMLS:C0018799 (
heart disease
)
34,133
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Mutations in several muscle structural proteins (the myosin heavy chain,
alpha tropomyosin
, cardiac troponin T and myosin binding protein C) result in a genetically dominant
heart disease
, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Biochemical data from studies of mutant myosin suggest a dominant-negative mechanism for inheritance of this disease. The most likely primary defect is sarcomere dysfunction, which is followed by the major clinical symptoms.
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PMID:Contractile protein mutations and heart disease. 879 11
