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Cerebral aneurysm in three pediatric patients with STAT1 gain-of-function mutations

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  1. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Shaia Bierman-Chow, John Lynch & Hyun Joo Cho

  2. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Alexandra F. Freeman & Steven M. Holland

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This study was approved by the NIH Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Office of Ethics at NIAID. We certify that the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.

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Bierman-Chow, S., Freeman, A.F., Holland, S.M. et al. Cerebral aneurysm in three pediatric patients with STAT1 gain-of-function mutations. J Neurol 269, 5638–5642 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11131-w

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