The Val606Met mutation in the cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain gene in patients with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is associated with a high risk of sudden death at young age

Am J Cardiol. 2001 Jun 1;87(11):1315-7. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(01)01532-6.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / genetics*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / mortality
  • Child
  • Cohort Studies
  • DNA Glycosylases*
  • DNA Mutational Analysis*
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / epidemiology
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / etiology*
  • Female
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease / genetics
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Methionine / metabolism*
  • Myosin Heavy Chains / genetics*
  • N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / genetics
  • Nonmuscle Myosin Type IIB
  • Pedigree
  • Risk
  • Survival Analysis
  • Valine / genetics*

Substances

  • Methionine
  • DNA Glycosylases
  • N-Glycosyl Hydrolases
  • mutY adenine glycosylase
  • Nonmuscle Myosin Type IIB
  • nonmuscle myosin type IIB heavy chain
  • Myosin Heavy Chains
  • Valine