Linkage analysis between childhood absence epilepsy and genes encoding GABAA and GABAB receptors, voltage-dependent calcium channels, and the ECA1 region on chromosome 8q

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 169-179

  Robinson, Robert ^a   Taske, Nichole ^a   Sander, Thomas ^b   Heils, Armin ^c   Whitehouse, William ^d   Goutières, Françoise ^e   Aicardi, Jean ^f   Lehesjoki, Anna Elina ^g   Siren, Auli ^h   Laue Friis, Mogens ^h   Kjeldsen, Marianne Juel ⁱ   Panayiotopoulos, Chrysostomos ^j   Kennedy, Colin ^k   Ferrie, Colin ^l   Rees, Michele ^a   Gardiner, R Mark ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^f HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^h TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

ⁱ ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^j ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^k SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^l LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Childhood absence epilepsy; GABAA; GABAB; Genetics; Voltage dependent calcium channel, ECA1

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ABSENCE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PEDIGREE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GABA-B;

EID: 18344384217     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(01)00335-7     Document Type: Article

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