Genome-wide linkage scan in epilepsy-related photoparoxysmal electroencephalographic response: Evidence for linkage on chromosomes 7q32 and 16p13

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 171-178

  Pinto, Dalila ^a,d   Westland, Birgit ^a   de Haan, Gerrit Jan ^b   Rudolf, Gabrielle ^c   da Silva, Berta Martins ^d   Hirsch, Edouard ^c   Lindhout, Dick ^a   Kasteleijn Nolst Trenité, Dorothée G A ^a   Koeleman, Bobby P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHROMOSOME 16P; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROMODULATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE;

EID: 12344297397     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi018     Document Type: Article

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