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Examination of ELN as a candidate gene in the Utah intracranial aneurysm pedigrees.
Stroke - 1 Jun 2005
Berthelemy-Okazaki Nicole, Zhao Yu, Yang Zhenglin, Camp Nicola J, Farnham Jim, Parker Dennis, Tsuruda Jay, Macdonald Joel, Zhang Kang, Cannon-Albright Lisa A
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A study of intracranial aneurysm (IA) sibpairs suggested association of an ELN haplotype with IA risk. Subsequent linkage analysis of the ELN region on chromosome 7q11 in high-risk Utah IA pedigrees significantly confirmed linkage between IA and the ELN region. METHODS: We have investigated the ELN gene as a potential candidate gene for IA in Utah pedigrees. One IA case from each pedigree,...
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