Brief research communication: Possible association of a silent polymorphism in the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit α4 with common idiopathic generalized epilepsies

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 445-449

  Steinlein, Ortrud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HHAI; NERVE PROTEIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ABSENCE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 20Q; EPILEPSY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MISSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETICS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; POINT MUTATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SYNDROME;

ALLELES; CODON; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030749655     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970725)74:4<445::AID-AJMG18>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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