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Cardiac Marker genes


‘Cardiac marker genes are thought to participate in cardiomyocyte differentiation and to contribute to heart hypertrophy in animal models’, says the results published in Cardiovasc Pathol.2007 Nov-Dec;16(6):329-35. Epub 2007 Jun 20.

Early cardiac marker genes include: cardiac-specific homeobox (Csx/Nkx2.5), myocardin, homeodomain only protein, GATA4, and myocyte enhancer factor 2C. Altered expressions of early cardiac marker genes and differentiation-specific marker genes have been found in patients with the condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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