Fifty families with abdominal aortic aneurysms in two or more first-order relatives.
Fifty families were collected with clustering of abdominal aortic aneurysms in two or more first-order relatives. If only one gene is responsible for these patterns, it is likely to be autosomal. However, multigene mechanisms cannot be excluded.
D000368:Aged; D000483:Alleles; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000235:genetics*; D004200:Diseases in Twins; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D011247:Pregnancy; D012737:Sex Factors; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic; D014960:X Chromosome