Genetic influences on myoclonic and absence seizures

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1576-1581

  Winawer, M R ^a,b   Rabinowitz, D ^b   Pedley, T A ^b   Hauser, W A ^a,b   Ottman, Ruth ^a,b,c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0344738663     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.61.11.1576     Document Type: Article

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