Article
Genetic susceptibility to ischemic stroke.
Nature reviews. Neurology - 31 May 2011
Meschia James F, Worrall Bradford B, Rich Stephen S
Abstract excerpt
Clinicians who treat patients with stroke need to be aware of several single-gene disorders that have ischemic stroke as a major feature, including sickle cell disease, Fabry disease, cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy, and retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukodystrophy. The reported genome-wide association studies of ischemic stroke and several related...
Topics
- Anemia, Sickle Cell
- Animals
- CADASIL
- Fabry Disease
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Ischemia
- Pharmacogenetics
- Stroke
