The main supervisor of the project, professor Jens Mogensen has been participating in an EU financed FP7 research project called INHERITANCE (INtegrated HEart Research In TrANslational genetics and Cardiomyopathies in Europe) since 2010. The purpose of this project is to perform clinical and genetic examinations of DCM patients. The project participants comes from 11 internationally recognised European centres lead by Professor Arbustini from Pavia in Italy (www.inheriatanceproject.eu). Due to the NGS technology is has been possible to make genetic examinations on 800 European DCM patients in 42 known disease associated genes as a part of the project. Furthermore 34 candidate genes were included which from a theoretical point of view could be new disease associated genes. The Danish cohort has contributed with 140 well characterised DCM patients from Funen and Jutland.