A locus for simple pure febrile seizures maps to chromosome 6q22-q24

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2668-2680

  Nabbout, Rima ^a,b,c   Prud'Homme, Jean François ^c   Herman, Alexandra ^a   Feingold, Josué ^a   Brice, Alexis ^a   Dulac, Olivier ^b   LeGuern, Eric ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

^c GÉNÉTHON   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosome 6; Genetic heterogeneity; Mapping; Simple febrile seizures

Indexed keywords

A KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN 18; G PROTEIN RECEPTOR 57; G PROTEIN RECEPTOR 58; PHENOBARBITAL; PROTEIN; PUTATIVE NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; SYNTAXIN 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FAMILY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0036894233     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf281     Document Type: Article

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