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Familial aggregation of ischemic stroke in young women: the Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Nov 2006
MacClellan Leah R, Mitchell Braxton D, Cole John W, Wozniak Marcella A, Stern Barney J, Giles Wayne H, Brown David W, Sparks Mary J, Kittner Steven J
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Stroke occurs infrequently in young adults. While a familial basis for older onset stroke is well established, the extent of familial clustering in young-onset stroke is unknown. To address this issue, we compared the frequency of stroke in relatives of stroke cases to that in relatives of controls across different ages and by stroke subtype. METHODS: Through a population-based...
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