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Quantitative pedigree analysis and mitochondrial DNA sequence variants in adults with cyclic vomiting syndrome.
BMC gastroenterology - 21 Oct 2014
Venkatesan Thangam, Zaki Essam A, Kumar Nilay, Sengupta Jyotirmoy, Ali Muhammad, Malik Baber, Szabo Aniko, van Tilburg Miranda Al, Boles Richard G
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BACKGROUND: Children with cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) have a high degree of maternal inheritance of functional gastrointestinal and neurological disorders. CVS in children is also associated with an increased prevalence of mitochondrial DNA single-nucleotide polymorphisms (mtDNA SNPs) 16519 T and 3010A. Preliminary data suggests that age of onset of symptoms (pediatric vs. adult) may be a determinant of the...
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