Studies were excluded if they (1) were identified to be unrelated to DCM, (2) described in vitro functional studies, (3) included pediatric, syndromic, X-linked, mitochondrial, or autosomal recessive ...

They resulted in a recessive form of type 2 Stickler syndrome characterised ... exhibiting only mild age related vitreous syneresis. The pedigree is illustrated in figure 1. Mutations in exon 9 ...