Benign familial neonatal epilepsy with mutations in two potassium channel genes

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-147

  Leppert, Mark ^a   Singh, Nanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

DNA SEQUENCE; EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

EID: 0032941179     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-199904000-00003     Document Type: Review

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