Pedigree analysis in families with febrile seizures

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 345-352

  Johnson, William G ^a,b   Kugler, Steven L ^a   Stenroos, E Scot ^a   Meulener, Marc C ^a   Rangwalla, Inciya ^a   Johnson, Trevor W ^a   Mandelbaum, David E ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

autosomal dominant inheritance; epilepsy; febrile convulsions; febrile seizures; linkage mapping; multifactorial inheritance; pedigrees; penetrance; reduced penetrance; SIMLINK

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 0030044668     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960202)61:4<345::AID-AJMG8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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