Febrile convulsions in selected large families: A single-major-locus mode of inheritance?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 79-84

  Maher, John ^a   McLachlan, Richard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SIBLING; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 0031039046     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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