Evidence for linkage of adolescent-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsies to chromosome 8 - and genetic heterogeneity

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1411-1419

  Durner, Martina ^a   Zhou, Guillan ^a   Fu, Dingyi ^a   Abreu, Paula ^e   Shinnar, Shlomo ^f   Resor, Stanley R ^b   Moshe, Solomon L ^f   Rosenbaum, David ^a   Cohen, Jeffrey ^b   Harden, Cynthia ^b   Kang, Harriet ^f   Wallace, Sibylle ^c   Luciano, Daniel ^d   Ballaban Gil, Karen ^f   Klotz, Irene ^a   Dicker, Elisa ^a   Greenberg, David A ^a,b,g  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 8; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0033358806     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302371     Document Type: Article

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