Exclusion of the JRK/JH8 gene as a candidate for human childhood absence epilepsy mapped on 8q24

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-158

  Morita, Ryoji ^a   Miyazaki, Emi ^a   Shah, Pravina U ^b,c   Castroviejo, Ignacio Pascual ^b,d   Delgado Escueta, Antonio V ^b   Yamakawa, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a Inst Phys C   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

8q24; Absence; Childhood absence epilepsy; ECA1; Epilepsy; Jerky; JRK JH8 gene

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENOME; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032834693     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(99)00061-3     Document Type: Article

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