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Dissection and atherosclerosis of carotid arteries in the young: role of the apolipoprotein E polymorphism.
European journal of neurology - 1 Jan 2002
Orlandi G, Fanucchi S, Mancuso M, Gelli A, Rocchi A, Siciliano G, Murri L
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-seven young (<50 years old) patients with spontaneous carotid artery dissection in 11 cases and carotid atherosclerosis in 16 cases were evaluated to determine the apolipoprotein E polymorphism. At the DNA analysis the epsilon3/epsilon3 genotype was observed in all patients with dissection, in 13 of 16 (81.2%) patients with atherosclerosis and in 27 of 30 (90%) controls. Three of 16 (18.8%) patients with...
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