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Mutations in KRIT1 in Familial Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
1 May 2000
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OBJECTIVES: The recognition of six unrelated Hispanic-American families in which cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) segregated as an autosomal dominant trait established a genetic basis for this disease. Linkage analysis subsequently identified locus heterogeneity with disease genes for CCM at chromosomal regions 7q, 7p, and 3q. Recently, mutations in KRIT1, a gene on 7q at the CCM1 locus, were identified in...
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