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Familial hemiplegic migraine: linkage to chromosome 14q32 in a Spanish kindred.
Neurogenetics - 1 Jul 2009
Cuenca-León Ester, Corominas Roser, Montfort Magda, Artigas Josep, Roig Manuel, Bayés Mònica, Cormand Bru, Macaya Alfons
Abstract excerpt
We sought to map the disease-causing gene in a large Spanish kindred with familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM). Patients were classified according to the ICHD-II criteria. After ruling out linkage to known migraine genetic loci, a single nucleotide polymorphism-based, 0.62-cM density genome-wide scan was performed. Among 13 affected subjects, FHM was the prevailing migraine phenotype in six, migraine with aura in...
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