New insights into the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying idiopathic epilepsies

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 169-175

  Steinlein, Ortrud K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

CONVULSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031687542     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1998.tb04279.x     Document Type: Review

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