Researchers have uncovered a major genetic risk for heart failure — a mutation affecting a key muscle protein that makes the heart less elastic. Christine Seidman, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and HMS professor of genetics, is a study coauthor.
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