Genetics of Hemostasis: Differential Effects of Heritability and Household Components Influencing Lipid Concentrations and Clotting Factor Levels in 282 Pediatric Stroke Families

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BACKGROUND: The identification of heritable and environmental factors possibly influencing a condition at risk should be a prerequisite for the search for the proportion of variance attributable for shared environmental effects (c(2)) modulating the risk of disease. Such epidemiologic approaches in families with a first acute ischemic stroke during early childhood are lacking. OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to estimate...

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