Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in chromosome 6p12-p11: Locus heterogeneity and recombinations

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 438-446

  Liu, A W ^a   Delgado Escueta, A V ^a,c   Gee, M N ^c   Serratosa, J M ^a   Zhang, Q W ^a   Alonso, M E ^d   Medina, M T ^a,e   Cordova, S ^d   Zhao, H Z ^a   Spellman, J M ^a   Rubio Donnadieu, F ^d   Ramos Peek, J ^d   Treiman, L J ^a   Sparkes, R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

chromosome 6p11; heterogeneity; juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; recombinations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 6P; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0029892632     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960614)63:3<438::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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