Clinical investigation of genetic contributions to childhood-onset epilepsies and epileptic syndromes

Brain and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 184-189

  Wakamoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Hayashi, Masatoshi ^b   Nagao, Hideo ^c   Morimoto, Takehiko ^c   Kida, Kaichi ^c  

^a Ehime Prefecture Niihama Hospital   (Japan)

^b Uwajima City Hospital   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Consanguinity; Epilepsy; Family history; Genetic susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY; INFANT; LOCALIZATION RELATED EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; RELATIVE; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE;

EID: 1642270616     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(03)00124-4     Document Type: Article

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