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Biographical Date Spacing

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"Aicardi syndrome was first described in 1961 by Jean Francois Marie Aicardi (1926-2015), a French paediatric neurologist ²."

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Numbers Over10000

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"Due to its rarity, epidemiological data is limited. However, its incidence has been postulated at ~1/100000, with a prevalence of over 850 cases in the US and 4,000 globally ¹⁰. No ethnicity bias has been found ⁵. Peculiarly, it only manifests in females, except for rare 47,XXY cases ¹⁰."

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Acronyms

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"Due to its rarity, epidemiological data is limited. However, its incidence has been postulated at ~1/100000, with a prevalence of over 850 cases in the US and 4,000 globally ¹⁰. No ethnicity bias has been found ⁵. Peculiarly, it only manifests in females, except for rare 47,XXY cases ¹⁰."

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Semicolons

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"chorioretinal lacunae: punched out lesions in the pigmented layer of retina, usually around the optic disc ⁸; almost pathognomonic ⁹"

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Oxford Comma

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"Characteristic malformations affect the brain, spine and eyes and include:"

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