Familial infantile myoclonic epilepsy: Clinical features in a large kindred with autosomal recessive inheritance

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1541-1548

  De Falco, Fabrizio A ^a,d   Majello, Luigi ^a   Santangelo, Roberto ^a   Stabile, Mariano ^b   Bricarelli, Franca Dagna ^c   Zara, Federico ^c  

^a Loreto Mare Hospital   (Italy)

^b CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c GALLIERA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genetics; Infancy; Myoclonic epilepsy; Nosology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 16P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0035669199     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.26701.x     Document Type: Article

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