Stroke Genetics

This revised, expanded second edition updates the reader on this fast moving field as well providing an overall understanding of the genetics of complex diseases by using stroke as a paradigm. The reader will gain a comprehensive understanding of cerebrovascular genetics including the epidemiologica...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Sharma, Pankaj (Editor), Meschia, James F. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition2nd ed. 2017.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319562100
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-56210-0
Physical DescriptionXII, 431 p. 39 illus., 26 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Familial stroke epidemiology
  • Association study results
  • GWAS
  • Aneurysms/carvernous/AVM
  • ICH/amyloid/microbleeds
  • CADASIL
  • Fabry
  • MELAS
  • Sickle
  • Other monogenic
  • White matter disease
  • Carotid atherosclerosis
  • Dissection
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Non-Caucasian stroke genetics
  • Small vessel disease
  • Genetics of neuroimaging in stroke
  • Cerebrovenous thrombosis
  • Ethics.