Failure to find causal mutations in the GABAA-receptor γ2 subunit (GABRG2) gene in Japanese febrile seizure patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-120

  Nakayama, Junko ^a   Hamano, Kenzo ^b   Noguchi, Emiko ^a   Horiuchi, Yasue ^a   Iwasaki, Nobuaki ^a   Ohta, Masayasu ^c   Nakahara, Satoko ^d   Naoi, Takayuki ^b   Matsui, Akira ^a   Arinami, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Kitaibaraki Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Kensei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Febrile seizures; GABA receptor; Genetics; Japanese; Mutations; Transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0038324191     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00338-0     Document Type: Article

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