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Identification of a known mutation in Notch 3 in familiar CADASIL in China.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Tan Zhen-Xuan, Li Fei-Feng, Qu You-Yang, Liu Ji, Liu Gui-Rong, Zhou Jin, Zhu Yu-Lan, Liu Shu-Lin
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BACKGROUND: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an inherited disease leading to recurrent ischemic stroke and vascular dementia. Numerous mutations in the 23 exons of the NOTCH3 gene have been reported to cause CADASIL in Caucasian populations, but the full spectrum of genetic changes leading to this disease is yet to be known and, especially,...
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