Molecular epidemiology of tuberous sclerosis

Gann Monographs on Cancer Research

Volumn 46, Issue , 1999, Pages 53-59

  Ohno, Kousaku ^a   Yakura, Noriko ^a   Zhang, Haidi ^a,b   Ninomiya, Haruaki ^a   Nanba, Eiji ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 16; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPILEPSY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0032991935     PISSN: 00720151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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