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While heterozygous TNNI3 missense mutations have long been associated with autosomal dominant hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathies, the role of TNNI3 null mutations has been more debated due to the paucity and weak characterization of reported cases and the low penetrance of heterozygous genotypes. In recent years, however, an increasing amount of evidence has validated the hypothesis that biallelic TNNI3 null mutations cause a severe form of neonatal dilated cardiomyopathy. Here, we expand the case series reporting two unrelated patients afflicted with early onset dilated cardiomyopathy, due to homozygosity for the p.Arg98* TNNI3 variant, which had thus far been documented only in heterozygous patients and apparently healthy carriers, and the recurrent p.Arg69Alafs*8 variant, respectively. 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