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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Schmidt H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3490100 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Experimental gerontology 20120623 11
Subcortical vascular dementia or cerebral small vessel disease is a common cause of disability in the elderly. On magnetic resonance imaging the disease is manifested as white matter lesions, lacunes and microbleeds. Its etiology is complex, with age and hypertension as established risk factors. The heritability of white matter lesions is constantly high over different populations. Linkage studies identified several loci for these lesions however no genes responsible for the linkage signals had ...[more]