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In 127 multiplex SLE pedigrees, the best evidence for linkage was at D1S229, with the greatest extent of allele sharing in the white families at the D1S2616 marker.
Model-dependent linkage analysis has been used in large pedigrees with diseases such as cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) [ 6 7 8 9 ] . However, traditional linkage analysis is unlikely to be the most expedient method of finding novel stroke-susceptibility genes when carrier status cannot be defined on the basis of distinctive clinical, radiographic, or laboratory features.
Genomic DNA extracted from blood was used to screen two affected family members from each of six previously described pedigrees [ 1, 2].
This CFEOM phenotype was first described in the medical literature in 1840 [ 9 ] and was recognized to occur as a familial trait in 1879 [ 10 ] . Subsequently, families segregating this phenotype have been published under myriad names [ 1 4 6 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ] . We now refer to individuals with this phenotype as having "classic CFEOM" and to families in which all affected members have this phenotype as " CFEOM1 pedigrees".
The affected members of these pedigrees are born with bilateral ptosis and restrictive ophthalmoplegia.