Chia Yee Tan, Pui Shi Chan, Hansen Tan, Sung Wei Tan, Chang Jie Mick Lee, Jiong-Wei Wang, Shu Ye, Hendrikje Werner, Ying Jie Loh, Yin Loon Lee, Matthew Ackers-Johnson, Roger S Y Foo, Jianming Jiang
BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a severe, non-ischemic heart disease which ultimately results in heart failure (HF). Decades of research on DCM have revealed diverse aetiologies. Among them, familial DCM is the major form of DCM, with pathogenic variants in LMNA being the second most common form of autosomal dominant DCM. LMNA DCM is a multifactorial and complex disease with no specific treatment thus far. Many studies have demonstrated that perturbing candidates related to various dysregulated pathways ameliorate LMNA DCM...
October 16, 2023: Journal of Translational Medicine