Localization of idiopathic generalized epilepsy on chromosome 6p in families of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy patients

Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1651-1655

  Durner, M ^a,b   Sander, T ^a,c   Greenberg, D A ^b   Johnson, K ^c   Beck Mannagetta, G ^a   Janz, Dieter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; PEDIGREE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026096204     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.41.10.1651     Document Type: Article

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