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Cyprien A Rivier, Santiago Clocchiatti-Tuozzo, Shubham Misra

    Medrxiv : the Preprint Server for Health Sciences
    |October 4, 2023
    PubMed
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    Genetic predisposition increases the risk of developing post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) in stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) survivors. This study developed a polygenic risk score (PRS) to identify individuals at higher risk for PSE.

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