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9 A high-density analysis of common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in approximately 2,000 cardiovascular genes of interest identified two SNPs in introns of HSPB7 and FRMD4B that were associated with moderate to severe HF in European-derived (Caucasian) subjects. HSPB7 is a small gene encoding the cardiovascular heat shock protein,10 and we subsequently validated an association of this locus with HF using high-throughput next-generation resequencing of the entire HSPB7 coding sequence. In the process, we not only verified the original SNP association, but identified 11 additional HF-associated HSPB7 SNPs.11 The other HF-associated SNP identified by microarray Hydroxychloroquine in vitro was the rs6787362 SNP located within intron 21 of FRMD4B (previously known as GRSP1), Oxygenase a Ferm domain containing protein about which little is known.12 There is currently no information on disease associations with individual genetic variants of FRMD4B. Here, to pursue this putative gene-disease association, we resequenced FRMD4B exons in two HF case�Ccontrol studies. Because the FRMD4B gene is much larger than HSPB7, this required refinement and a massive scaling up of our next-generation resequencing SNP discovery protocols. The results reveal that FRMD4B is highly polymorphic; we confirmed four synonymous and four nonsynonymous SNPs in dbSNP and describe 41 novel FRMD4B polymorphisms. No exonic FRMD4B sequence variants showed a significant association with HF in either case�Ccontrol comparison. However, individual genotyping of the intronic ROCK inhibitor FRMD4B SNP implicated by microarray confirmed a modest association with ischemic HF in Caucasians. Human study protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio or the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All subjects provided written informed consent. Subjects with systolic HF (ejection fraction