| Literature DB >> 25422529 |
Sree Kanthaswamy1, Rachel Reader2, Ross Tarara2, Karen Oslund2, Mark Allen2, Jillian Ng2, Chloe Grinberg2, Dallas Hyde3, David Glenn Glenn4, Nicholas Lerche2.
Abstract
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the abnormal thickening of the ventricles and an increase in cardiac mass. Analyses of 108 rhesus macaque probands with pronounced HCM revealed a strong genetic predisposition to this disease. Macaques are ideal for investigating HCM because of their marked similarity to humans genetically, physiologically and anatomically.Entities:
Keywords: Genetic disease; heart disease; left ventricular hypertrophy; nonhuman primates
Year: 2014 PMID: 25422529 PMCID: PMC4240635 DOI: 10.1111/jmp.12127
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Primatol ISSN: 0047-2565 Impact factor: 0.667