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Researchers Identify Novel Gene for Dilated Cardiomyopathy
medindia 8870 Posts A novel gene responsible for heart muscle disease and chronic heart failure in some children and adults with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has been identified by researchers in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. ...Read More
Posted on : Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:00 AM

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This is not the first description of this gene as mutated in DCM. A French group as published an article earlier this year with the same main result (Eur Heart journal)

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