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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Cardiol. 2008 May;23(3):199–205. doi: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e3282fc27d9

Table 1.

Causal genes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Gene Symbol Chromosome Frequency
Established causal genes
 β-Myosin heavy chain MYH7 14q1 ~25–30%
 Myosin binding protein-C MYBPC3 11q1 ~ 25–30%
 Cardiac troponin T TNNT2 1q3 ~3–5%
 Cardiac troponin I TNNI3 19p13.2 ~3–5%
 α-Tropomyosin TPM1 15q1 ~1%
 Myozenin 2 MYOZ2 4q25–26 1 : 250
 Myosin light chain 1 MYL3 3p Rare
 Myosin light chain 2 MYL2 12q Rare
 α-Cardiac actin ACTC1 15q11 Rare
 Titin TTN 2q13–33 Rare
 Telethonin TCAP 17q12 Rare
Possible causal genes
 Myosin light chain kinase 2 MYLK2 20q13.3 Rare
 α-Myosin heavy chain MYH6 14q12 Rare
 Cardiac troponin C TNNC1 3p21 Rare
 Caveolin 3 CAV3 3p25 Rare
 Phospholamban PLN 6p22.1 Rare
 Calreticulin CALR3 19p13.11 Rare
 Junctophilin-2 JPH2 20q13.12 Rare
 Mitochondrial tRNAs MTTG, MTTI Mitochondrial DNA Rare