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Ventricular Expression of the Atrial Regulatory Myosin Light Chain Gene

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Cardiovascular Specific Gene Expression

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 214))

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The techniques of molecular biology have opened new diagnostic pathways in clinical cardiology. These pathways include the molecular genetic analysis of families with cardiac diseases like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Although four chromosomal loci are associated with the inherited form of DCM, the genes involved are still unknown [1]. In most patients with dilated cardiomyopathy inheritance appears less important and the etiology remains obscure.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Pieter A. Doevendans

  2. Academic Hospital Maastricht, CARIM, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Robert S. Reneman

  3. Department of Physiology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Marc van Bilsen

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Doevendans, P.A., Bronsaer, R., Ruiz-Lozano, P., van Dantzig, J.M., van Bilsen, M. (1999). Ventricular Expression of the Atrial Regulatory Myosin Light Chain Gene. In: Doevendans, P.A., Reneman, R.S., van Bilsen, M. (eds) Cardiovascular Specific Gene Expression. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 214. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9321-2_10

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