AcknowledgementsI am indebted to the members of the family of MM, MiR, HH and NP who generouslycooperated in this study.Study was a co-operative project of HCM withMux Plank institute for physiological and clinical research, Department of ExperimentalCardiology,Benekcstr.2,D-6123 Bad Nauheim, Germany.Service de Biochimie B, U 523 INSERM, Institute de Myologic, Batiment Babinski,Hospital de Ia salpetriere, Paris, France.Department of Biochemistry, Center for For Advaned studies in functional Genomics,School of Biological Studies ,Madurai Kamaraj University,Madurai.-695 011, India.Department of cardiology Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute For Medical Sciences AndTechnology. Trivandrum India.41
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