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Modeling of cardiomyopathy caused by a desmoplakin (DSP) mutation resulted in fibrosis and cardiac dysfunction and led to identifying the bromodomain and extra-terminal inhibitor INCB054329 as a drug mitigating the desmoplakin-related functional defect. 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