Epilepsy genes: Excitement traced to potassium channels

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 6-8

  Stoffel, Markus ^a   Jan, Lily Y ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

BRAIN INJURY; CHANNEL GATING; CONVULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; KCNQ POTASSIUM CHANNELS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KCNQ2 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MUTATION; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; SODIUM;

EID: 0031974740     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0198-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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