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Genetic variants promoting smooth muscle cell proliferation can result in diffuse and diverse vascular diseases: evidence for a hyperplastic vasculomyopathy.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Apr 2010
Milewicz Dianna M, Kwartler Callie S, Papke Christina L, Regalado Ellen S, Cao Jiumei, Reid Amy J
Abstract excerpt
Genetic predisposition to early onset of occlusive vascular diseases, including coronary artery disease, ischemic stroke, and Moyamoya disease, may represent varying presentations of a common underlying dysregulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. We discuss mutations in two genes,...
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