A new clinical and molecular form of Unverricht-Lundborg disease localized by homozygosity mapping

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 652-658

  Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,j   Mazarib, Aziz ^d   Walid, Simri ^f   Neufeld, Miriam Y ^d   Manelis, Judith ^f   Nevo, Yoram ^e   Korczyn, Amos D ^d,e   Yin, Jinggang ^g   Xiong, Lan ^h   Pandolfo, Massimo ^h,i   Mulley, John C ^b,c   Wallace, Robyn H ^b,c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

ⁱ ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^j Epilepsy Research Centre   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Epilepsy; Gene mapping; Myoclonus; Photosensitivity

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN B;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 21; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSANGUINITY; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PEDIGREE; UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME;

EID: 20144376593     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh377     Document Type: Article

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