A 52-year-old woman with chronic hypertension presents with left ventricular hypertrophy on echocardiography. Her 28-year-old daughter, a competitive weightlifter, also has left ventricular hypertrophy on screening echo. Which feature best distinguishes pathological hypertrophy (from hypertension) from physiological hypertrophy (from exercise)?

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