Polygenic Control of Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy Phenotypes in the Genetic Absence Rats from Strasbourg (GAERS)

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 301-308

  Rudolf, Gabrielle ^a   Bihoreau, Marie Thérèse ^b   Godfrey, Richard F ^b   Wilder, Steven P ^b   Cox, Roger D ^c   Lathrop, Mark ^d   Marescaux, Christian ^a   Gauguier, Dominique ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Animal models; Genetics; Quantitative trait locus; Spike and wave discharges

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 1842853075     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.50303.x     Document Type: Article

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