Significant evidence for linkage of febrile seizures to chromosome 5q14-q15

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-91

  Nakayama, Junko ^a   Hamano, Kenzo ^b   Iwasaki, Nobuaki ^a   Nakahara, Satoko ^c   Horigome, Yumi ^a   Saitoh, Hisako ^a   Aoki, Takeshi ^a   Maki, Takako ^a   Kikuchi, Masahiro ^d   Migita, Takuo ^e   Ohto, Tatsuyuki ^a   Yokouchi, Yukako ^a   Tanaka, Ryuta ^a   Hasegawa, Makoto ^a   Matsui, Akira ^a   Hamaguchi, Hideo ^a   Arinami, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Kitaibaraki Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Kensei General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Hitachi   (Japan)

^e Tsukuba Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CHROMOSOME MARKER; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 17344375789     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.1.87     Document Type: Article

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