Association between genetic variation of CACNA1H and childhood absence epilepsy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-243

  Chen, Yucai ^a,b   Lu, Jianjun ^a,b   Pan, Hong ^a   Zhang, Yuehua ^a   Wu, Husheng ^f   Xu, Keming ^c   Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a   Bao, Xinhua ^a   Yao, Zhijian ^b   Ding, Keyue ^d   Lo, Wilson H Y ^d   Qiang, Boqin ^b,d   Chan, Piu ^b,e   Shen, Yan ^b,d   Wu, Xiru ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

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

^c CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CACNA1H GENE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DNA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0041343159     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10607     Document Type: Article

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