A second locus for familial generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus maps to chromosome 2q21-q33

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1078-1085

  Baulac, Stéphanie ^a   Gourfinkel An, Isabelle ^a   Picard, Fabienne ^b,c   Rosenberg Bourgin, Myriam ^b   Prud'homme, Jean François ^d   Baulac, Michel ^a   Brice, Alexis ^a   LeGuern, Eric ^a,b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d GÉNÉTHON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2Q; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE LOCUS; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033364824     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302593     Document Type: Article

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