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Familial clustering of stroke according to proband age at onset of presenting ischemic stroke.
Stroke - 1 Jul 2003
Meschia James F, Atkinson Elizabeth J, O'Brien Peter C, Brott Thomas G, Brown Robert D, Hardy John
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The magnitude of inherited risk of stroke may lessen with age, and this would have implications for optimizing genomic approaches to identifying genetic risk factors for stroke. We investigated the relationship between age and inherited risk of stroke. METHODS: Family histories of stroke were obtained in systematic interviews with 310 adult men and women with recent CT- or MR-confirmed...
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