Are generalized and localization-related epilepsies genetically distinct?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-344

  Ottman, Ruth ^a,b,e   Lee, Joseph H ^a,d   Hauser, W Allen ^a   Risch, Neil ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031897530     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.3.339     Document Type: Article

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