Febrile seizures and generalized epilepsy associated with a mutation in the Na+-channel β1 subunit gene SCN1B

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 366-370

  Wallace, Robyn H ^a,b   Wang, Dao W ^c   Singh, Rita ^d,e   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^d,e,f   George Jr , Alfred L ^c   Phillips, Hilary A ^a   Saar, Kathrin ^g   Reis, Andre ^g,h   W johnson, Eric ⁱ   Sutherland, Grant R ^a,b   Berkovic, Samuel F ^d,e   Mulley, John C ^a,j  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^g MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^h HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ Neurogenetics/Neuropharmacology   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE MUTATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SODIUM CHANNELS; TASMANIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 17344367657     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1252     Document Type: Article

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