Data mining was conducted in genome-wide association study databases, focusing on variant target proteins (titin, CTnI, desmocollin-2), the perinatal period, alcoholism, Behçet's disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, hyperthyroidism and thyrotoxicosis, hypothyroidism, carnitine metabolic disorder, and renal insufficiency, with DCM as the outcome. This evidence concerns the gene DSC2 and hypothyroidism.