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A founder mutation as a cause of cerebral cavernous malformation in Hispanic Americans.
The New England journal of medicine - 11 Apr 1996
Gunel M, Awad I A, Finberg K, Anson J A, Steinberg G K, Batjer H H, Kopitnik T A, Morrison L, Giannotta S L, Nelson-Williams C, Lifton R P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cerebral cavernous malformation is a vascular disease of the brain causing headaches, seizures, and cerebral hemorrhage. Familial and sporadic cases are recognized, and a gene causing familial disease has been mapped to chromosome 7. Hispanic Americans have a higher prevalence of cavernous malformation than do other ethnic groups, raising the possibility that affected persons in this population have...
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