Failure to replicate previously reported genetic associations with sporadic temporal lobe epilepsy: Where to from here?

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1832-1840

  Cavalleri, Gianpiero L ^a   Lynch, John M ^a   Depondt, Chantal ^a   Burley, Mari Wyn ^b   Wood, Nicholas W ^a   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a   Goldstein, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Epilepsy; Epilepsy genetics; Replication; TLE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; PRION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; AMYLOID; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; DYNORPHIN; GABA TYPE B RECEPTOR, SUBUNIT 1; GABRR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INFECTIOUS AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR ALPHA4 SUBUNIT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PRE PRODYNORPHIN; PRE-PRODYNORPHIN; PRNP PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMYLOID; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; COHORT STUDIES; DYNORPHINS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 23444437212     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh524     Document Type: Article

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