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Lack of aggregation of ischemic stroke subtypes within affected sibling pairs.
Neurology - 6 Feb 2007
Wiklund P G, Brown W M, Brott T G, Stegmayr B, Brown R D, Nilsson-Ardnor S, Hardy J A, Kissela B M, Singleton A, Holmberg D, Rich S S, Meschia J F
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OBJECTIVE: To establish whether subtypes of ischemic stroke aggregate within ischemic stroke-affected sibling pairs more than expected by chance alone. METHODS: This retrospective family study was based on a pooled analysis of two cohorts of male and female adult sibling pairs with symptomatic ischemic stroke. One hospital-based cohort of 404 individuals (first proband seen August 30, 1999) was recruited from the...
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