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CMR measures of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, fibrosis and function, and adverse events, were compared. Findings were meta-analyzed with prior studies from systematic review.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Patients with pathogenic variants in thick-filament genes had greater hypertrophy than those in thin-filament genes - maximal LV wall thickness (maxLVWT) (21.7 \u00b1 5.0 vs. 20.0 \u00b1 4.4mm,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;0.01) and indexed LV mass (81.9 \u00b1 26.0 vs. 71.7 \u00b1 13.3g\/m\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;0.001). Of the former,\n                    <jats:italic>MYBPC3<\/jats:italic>\n                    carriers had greater maxLVWT than\n                    <jats:italic>MYH7<\/jats:italic>\n                    carriers (22.2 \u00b1 5.2 vs. 20.9 \u00b1 4.5mm,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;0.01) but lower LV ejection fraction (63.1 \u00b1 8.4 vs. 65.3 \u00b1 8.4%,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;0.001). Findings remained significant after covariate adjustment and meta-analysis. 23 (\u223c1%) patients had &gt;1 disease-linked variants with only 3 (\u223c0.11%) carrying &gt;1 pathogenic variants.\n                    <jats:italic>MYBPC3<\/jats:italic>\n                    carriers had lower risk of a multiple event composite than\n                    <jats:italic>MYH7<\/jats:italic>\n                    carriers.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In the largest CMR-based study to date, we identified significant phenotypic differences that characterize disease-gene subgroups and resolved prior discrepancies through systematic review and meta-analysis. However, carriage of &gt;1 sarcomeric variants did not contribute much to variation in phenotypic severity in the general HCM population due to its rarity.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Condensed Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Prior studies of genotype-phenotype correlations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have produced inconsistent findings. In the largest study to date with CMR imaging, we identified significant correlations between disease phenotypes and genotype subgroups of sarcomeric variant-positive patients from the NHLBI Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Registry. Patients with disease-linked\n                    <jats:italic>MYBPC3<\/jats:italic>\n                    variants had greater hypertrophy and lower ejection fraction than those with\n                    <jats:italic>MYH7<\/jats:italic>\n                    variants but also less incidence of clinical outcomes. Patients with multiple variants were strikingly rare (\u223c1% of all patients). Ultimately, we discovered phenotypic differences that characterize rare genotype subgroups and resolved prior discrepancies through systematic review and meta-analysis.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.64898\/2026.07.28.26359171","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,30]],"date-time":"2026-07-30T22:50:10Z","timestamp":1785451810000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Genotype-Phenotype Correlations Identify Phenotypic Differences in Sarcomere Mutation-Positive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in the NHLBI HCM Registry"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9790-6612","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jonathan H.","family":"Chan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford"},{"name":"Centre for Human Genetics, University of 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