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Identifying genetic causes improves our understanding of DCM pathophysiology, facilitates prognostic assessment, and enables more personalized disease management. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed genetic data from adult patients with a clinical diagnosis of isolated DCM evaluated at a Lithuanian tertiary university hospital between 2019 and 2024. All patients were tested with a next-generation sequencing cardiovascular gene panel. Results: We gathered 169 patients and initially reached a 16.0% (n = 27) genetic testing diagnostic yield. We performed all genetic variant reanalyses with the most current classification guidelines, and we found an additional eight positive cases. Our final diagnostic yield was 20.7% (n = 35). TTN was the most frequently affected gene (n = 30), whereas variants in BAG3 (n = 2), DSP (n = 1), LMNA (n = 1), and FLNC (n = 1) were rare. In total, 15 variants were novel\u2014not described in the literature or databases. We did not observe significant clinical differences between patients with pathogenic variants and those without pathogenic variants. We expected a different clinical course with variants in genes like BAG3 or LMNA, but there were only a few cases. 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