Mutation screen of GABRA1, GABRB2 and GABRG2 genes in Japanese patients with absence seizures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 220-224

  Ito, Minako ^a   Ohmori, Iori ^a   Nakahori, Tomoyuki ^a   Ouchida, Mamoru ^a   Ohtsuka, Yoko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; GABRA1; GABRB2; GABRG2

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA 1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA 2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GABA-B;

EID: 20444385482     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.017     Document Type: Article

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