Hereditary febrile seizures: Phenotype and evidence for a chromosome 19p locus

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 354-361

  Kugler, Steven L ^a,c   Stenroos, E Scot ^a   Mandelbaum, David E ^a   Lehner, Thomas ^b   McKoy, Vershon V ^a   Prossick, Trisha ^a   Sasvari, Jennifer ^a   Swannick, Krystine ^a   Katz, Jordan ^a   Johnson, William G ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Depts Pediat Neurol Robert W   (United States)

Author keywords

DPT encephalopathy; Epilepsy; Febrile convulsions; Febrile seizures; Human chromosome 19; Human chromosome 8; Linkage mapping; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 0032511770     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19981012)79:5<354::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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