HGF and familial dilated cardiomyopathy: In our earlier studies, we used monovariate analysis to investigate the diagnostic and prognostic potentials of three cytokines, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), stem cell growth factor beta (SCGF beta), and monokine induced by interferon gamma (CXCL9; also known as MIG) in CD and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) [16–18].