Familial nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. Clinical and genetic aspects;Familiare nachtliche Frontallappenepilepsie. Klinik und Genetik

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Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 870-874

  Steinlein, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

acetylcholine receptor; familial nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGHT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMINANT GENE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDER;

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0029845181     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001150050064     Document Type: Article

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