The companies intend to study de-identified, population-scale phenotypic and genotypic data to gain unique insights that may support the broader HCM ecosystem.
The study identified four variants in BAG3 that almost only occurred in African Americans and were associated with a nearly twofold increase in cardiac events.
Cases with genome and family history reports and controls with family history reports alone had comparable healthcare costs during the six months after receiving their reports.
Detection of pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants implicated in cardiomyopathy declines in individuals with self-reported ancestry from under-studied populations.
Minneapolis-St. Paul's KARE tells the story of a woman who'd thought she'd dodged genetic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sought testing for her children.
Investigators compared RNA sequence data in heart samples from individuals with dilated cardiomyopathy and samples from healthy transplant donor hearts.
