Sacred disease secrets revealed: The genetics of human epilepsy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 2491-2500

  Turnbull, Julie ^a   Lohi, Hannes ^a   Kearney, Jennifer A ^b   Rouleau, Guy A ^c   Delgado Escueta, Antonio V ^d   Meisler, Miriam H ^b   Cossette, Patrick ^c   Minassian, Berge A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenergic; Beta; Heart failure; Lymphocytes; Prognosis; Receptors; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GENE PRODUCT; ION CHANNEL; LEUCINE RICH GLIOMA ACTIVATED PROTEIN 1; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN CHRNA4; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRD2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LGI1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEMPORAL LOBE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MUTATION;

CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; EPILEPSY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 24144498733     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi250     Document Type: Review

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