Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy in a Spanish family with a Ser252Phe mutation in the CHRNA4 gene

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1004-1009

  Sáenz, Amets ^a   Galán, Juan ^b   Caloustian, Christophe ^c   Lorenzo, Frederic ^c   Márquez, Celedonio ^b   Rodríguez, Nuria ^b   Jiménez, Maria Dolores ^b   Poza, Juan Jose ^a   Cobo, Ana Maria ^a   Grid, Djamel ^c   Prud'homme, Jean François ^c   De Munain, Adolfo López ^a  

^a Hospital Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^c GÉNÉTHON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 8; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0344117156     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.56.8.1004     Document Type: Article

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