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Why do some people develop hypertropic cardio myopathy and others not?
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Genetics: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle caused by an abnormality in some of the genes that determine the structure of the heart muscle. People who possess the abnormal gene develop hcm; people with the normal gene do not.
Answered 11/9/2015
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