A greater degree of cardiac hypertrophy correlated negatively with the expression of MQC and UPRmt genes, including PAM16, TIMM17B, MFN2, DNM1L, PPARGC1, HTRA2, HSPA9, SPG7, TPCN1, TPCN2, MAP1LC3A, BECN1, BNIP3, PARL, and PINK1. This evidence concerns the gene HTRA2 and cardiac hypertrophy.