PRKX and dilated cardiomyopathy: We studied ten genes in the dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) pathway that were identified as differentially expressed genes (p < 0.05, showing 20% up- or down-regulation), as well as two other genes in the DCM pathway with “borderline” difference (Adrb1, p < 0.06, 0.78-fold change; Prkx, p < 0.03, 0.94-fold change) because of their key positions in the DCM pathway; in addition, Jup was tested, as an internal control, because it was among those identified by microarray analysis, but was not situated in the β1AR-DHPR-Ca2+ branch of the DCM pathway.