T-type calcium channel gene alpha (1G) is not associated with childhood absence epilepsy in the Chinese Han population

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 341, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-32

  Chen, Yucai ^a,b   Lu, Jianjun ^a,b   Zhang, Yuehua ^a   Pan, Hong ^a   Wu, Husheng ^c   Xu, Keming ^d   Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a   Bao, Xinhua ^a   Zhou, Jing ^b   Liu, Wei ^b   Shi, Guibin ^b   Shen, Yan ^b,e   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

Alpha (1G); Childhood absence epilepsy; Chinese; Mutation; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Susceptibility gene; T type Ca2+ channel

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0037464392     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00124-1     Document Type: Article

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