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Genetic dissection of susceptibility to vascular dementia.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Apr 2011
Kim Younyoung, Kong Minyoung, An Junhee, Ryu Jihye, Lee Chaeyoung
Abstract excerpt
Vascular dementia (VD) is the dementia induced by cerebrovascular lesions with a variety of pathophysiological subtypes. Our knowledge of the genetic mechanism of VD was restricted to a few Mendelian forms of VD. The complexity of sporadic VD caused by individual and interactive genetic effects under various environmental exposures renders it difficult to uncover genetic determinants. Much more effort has been...
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