Population
35 unrelated patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from the Kuopio University Hospital area in eastern…
Design
Cross-sectional
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May inform targeted genetic testing in eastern Finland; leaves open generalizability of benign phenotypes to other populations.
In eastern Finland, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is predominantly caused by a few founder mutations in sarcomeric genes, particularly MYBPC3, which are associated with relatively benign clinical phenotypes.
Jääskeläinen et al. (2004) studied this question.