Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 280-283 , November 2010

Analysis of the sarcomere protein gene mutation on cardiomyopathy – Mutations in the cardiac troponin I gene

Received 24 February 2010 ,Revised 16 July 2010 ,Accepted 26 July 2010.

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Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 280-283 , November 2010

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