University of Texas: Researchers Uncover Why a Gene Mutant Causes Young Children to Have Strokes
September 29, 2023
September 29, 2023
HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news:
A discovery of a mutation in the gene ACTA2 has given researchers, led by Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD, with UTHealth Houston, insight into understanding the cause of a rare and progressive problem with arteries in the brain and a cause of strokes in young children, called moyamoya disease.
The findings were published today in Nature Cardiovascular Resear . . .
A discovery of a mutation in the gene ACTA2 has given researchers, led by Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD, with UTHealth Houston, insight into understanding the cause of a rare and progressive problem with arteries in the brain and a cause of strokes in young children, called moyamoya disease.
The findings were published today in Nature Cardiovascular Resear . . .