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Leiden V factor and spastic cerebral palsy in Mexican children.
Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers - 1 Aug 2012
Arenas-Sordo María de la Luz, Zavala-Hernández César, Casiano-Rosas César, Reyes-Maldonado Elba, Ríos Camilo, Hernández-Zamora Edgar, Del Valle-Cabrera Martha G, Yamamoto-Furusho Jesús K
Abstract excerpt
AIM: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a persistent motor disorder that appears before the patient is 3 years old due to a nonprogressive interference in the brain's development which takes place before the central nervous system growth is complete. Causes of this have been studied, and one that has been proposed for spastic hemiparesis CP is the Leiden mutation of V factor coagulation. We want to know whether this mutation...
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