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BACKGROUND Laminopathies are rare diseases,whose cardiac manifestations are heterogeneous and,especially in their initial stage,similar to those of more common conditions,such as ischemic heart disease.Early diagnosis...
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This study was supported by grants from the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China (No.2008B030301335), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (No.8151008901000196), Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (No.B2008045), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.20060390754) and Sanofi-aventis. We acknowledge with thanks for Prof. XIANG Kun-san from No. 6 People's Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University with his kindly advices on this study, and Dr. LIU Dong-nian from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College for his kindly cooperation. We also thank the patient and her family for their support.
Background Laminopathies are a group of rare genetic disorders characterized by multiple-tissue degeneration.We describe a new laminopathy with ovarian cystadenoma and explore its molecular etiology.Methods The case i...