Abstract
Inherited mutations cause approximately 35 percent of cases of dilated cardiomyopathy; however, few genes associated with this disease have been identified. Previously, we located a gene defect that was responsible for autosomal dominant dilated cardiomyopathy and conduction-system disease on chromosome 1p1-q21, where nuclear-envelope proteins lamin A and lamin C are encoded by the LMNA (lamin A/C) gene. Mutations in the head or tail domain of this gene cause Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, a childhood-onset disease characterized by joint contractures and in some cases by abnormalities of cardiac conduction during adulthood.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1715-24 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
| Volume | 341 |
| Issue number | 23 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Dec 1999 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genotype
- Humans
- Lamin Type A
- Lamins
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscular Dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss
- Mutation, Missense
- Nuclear Proteins
- Pedigree
- Protein Isoforms
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
Cite this
- APA
- Author
- BIBTEX
- Harvard
- Standard
- RIS
- Vancouver