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Commentary on a GWAS: HDAC9 and the risk for ischaemic stroke.
BMC medicine - 9 Jul 2012
Hacke Werner, Grond-Ginsbach Caspar
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Modifiable risk factors like obesity, hypertension, smoking, physical inactivity or atrial fibrillation account for a significant proportion of the risk for ischaemic stroke, but genetic variation is also believed to contribute to the risk, although few genetic risk variants were identified to date. Common clinical subtypes of stroke are caused by cardiac embolism, large artery atherosclerosis and small cerebral...
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