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A British family with familial cerebral cavernous malformation due to a rare mutation of the CCM2 gene

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Miss Joanne McLean, Duty scientist, East of Scotland Regional Genetic service, Ninewells Hospital, Scotland, UK.

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  1. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, PL6 8DH, UK

    Muhammed Noushad, Shakya Bhattacharjee & Stuart J. Weatherby

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK

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MN: study concept and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, study supervision, critical revision of manuscript for intellectual content; SB: Analysis and interpretation of data, study supervision, critical revision; SJW: study supervision, critical revision; PW: Critical revision.

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The next generation sequencing file showing c.55c>T, p (Arg 19*) mutation in the exon 2 of CCM 2 gene (against a normal control) (PDF 18 kb)

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Noushad, M., Bhattacharjee, S., Weatherby, S.J. et al. A British family with familial cerebral cavernous malformation due to a rare mutation of the CCM2 gene. Acta Neurol Belg 120, 1227–1229 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-020-01329-y

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