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Mutations in the COL5A1 coding sequence are not common in patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections.
Stroke - 1 Sept 1999
Grond-Ginsbach C, Weber R, Haas J, Orberk E, Kunz S, Busse O, Hausser I, Brandt T, Wildemann B
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The dermal connective tissue of most patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections (sCAD) contains abnormal collagen fibers. This suggests a predisposing connective tissue defect. The ultrastructural abnormalities in the skin of patients with sCAD have similarity with the morphological alterations in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type II, a dominant hereditary disorder that...
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