Article
Genetics of cerebral small vessel disease
2018-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a leading cause of stroke and vascular dementia. The majority of cases are sporadic, occurring in the elderly hypertensive population. However, there also exist patients with familial disease. The most common form is Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), caused by mutations in the NOTCH3 gene. In recent years, ot...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8e0b52a8-ea94-5f49-9a7e-7ef4eab2f211
- DOI
- 10.17863/cam.30570
