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Maternal inheritance in cyclic vomiting syndrome with neuromuscular disease.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Aug 2003
Boles Richard G, Adams Kathleen, Ito Masamichi, Li B U K
Abstract excerpt
Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), characterized by severe discrete episodes of nausea, vomiting, and lethargy, is a predominately childhood condition associated with migraine and dysautonomic features. Disease-associated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variants are suggested by a strong maternal bias in the inheritance of migraine, and the recent findings of mtDNA variants in a few children with CVS and...
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