Reproducibility and complications in gene searches: Linkage on chromosome 6, heterogeneity, association, and maternal inheritance in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 508-516

  Greenberg, David A ^a,d   Durner, Martina ^a   Keddache, Mehdi ^a   Shinnar, Shlomo ^b   Resor, Stanley R ^a   Moshe, Solomon L ^b   Rosenbaum, David ^a   Cohen, Jeffrey ^a   Harden, Cynthia ^c   Kang, Harriet ^b   Wallace, Sibylle ^a   Luciano, Daniel ^a   Ballaban Gil, Karen ^b   Tomasini, Livia ^a   Zhou, Guilian ^a   Klotz, Irene ^a   Dicker, Elisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0033912851     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302763     Document Type: Article

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