Mutation-Specific Phenotypes in hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes Carrying Either Myosin-Binding Protein C Or α-Tropomyosin Mutation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

• Main Authors: Marisa Ojala (Author), Chandra Prajapati (Author), Risto-Pekka Pölönen (Author), Kristiina Rajala (Author), Mari Pekkanen-Mattila (Author), Jyrki Rasku (Author), Kim Larsson (Author), Katriina Aalto-Setälä (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic cardiac disease, which affects the structure of heart muscle tissue. The clinical symptoms include arrhythmias, progressive heart failure, and even sudden cardiac death but the mutation carrier can also be totally asymptomatic. To date, over 1400 mutati...