Mutation screen of the GABAA receptor gamma 2 subunit gene in Chinese patients with childhood absence epilepsy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 75-78

  Lu, Jianjun ^a   Chen, Yucai ^b   Zhang, Yuehua ^c   Pan, Hong ^d   Wu, Husheng ^e   Xu, Keming ^a   Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a   Bao, Xinhua ^a   Ding, Keyue ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Wu, Xiru ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Childhood absence epilepsy; Chinese; Mutation; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Susceptibility gene; Transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; CHILD; CHINA; DNA; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037206647     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00805-4     Document Type: Article

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