Article
Heritability of ischaemic stroke in women compared with men: a genetic epidemiological study.
The Lancet. Neurology - 1 Feb 2007
Touzé Emmanuel, Rothwell Peter M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ischaemic stroke is partly heritable. However, although the genetic and non-genetic factors responsible could be sex-specific, interactions between the sex of the parent affected and the sex of the proband or affected siblings are unknown. We sought to assess the relation between the sex and phenotype of affected probands and the sex of affected first-degree relatives. METHODS: We determined the...
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