Nonsyndromic Seizure Disorders: Epilepsy and the Use of the Internet to Advance Research

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 437-457

  Leppert, Mark F ^a   Singh, Nanda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy families; Gene discovery; Genomic databases; Idiopathic epilepsy; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPILEPSY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INHERITANCE; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONSYNDROMIC SEIZURE DISORDER; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEIZURES;

EID: 0242609109     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.4.071902.102155     Document Type: Review

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