"Azores" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of nine islands and several islets belonging to Portugal in the north Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. The islands are named after the acores, the Portuguese for goshawks, living there in abundance. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p42)
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D001394
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Z01.639.040.218
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St George-Hyslop P, Rogaeva E, Huterer J, Tsuda T, Santos J, Haines JL, Schlumpf K, Rogaev EI, Liang Y, McLachlan DR, et al. Machado-Joseph disease in pedigrees of Azorean descent is linked to chromosome 14. Am J Hum Genet. 1994 Jul; 55(1):120-5.