Familial Partial Epilepsy with Variable Foci in a Dutch Family: Clinical Characteristics and Confirmation of Linkage to Chromosome 22q

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1298-1305

  Callenbach, Petra M C ^a   Van den Maagdenberg, Arn J M ^a   Hottenga, Jouke J ^a   Van den Boogerd, Eelke H ^a   De Coo, René F M ^b   Lindhout, Dick ^c   Frants, Rune R ^a   Sandkuijl, Lodewijk A ^a   Brouwer, Oebele F ^a,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ADNFLE; Chromosome 22q; Clinical characteristics; FPEVF; Genetics

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRAIN REGION; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EVALUATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENETRANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0142104303     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.62302.x     Document Type: Article

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