Genes and loci involved in febrile seizures and related epilepsy syndromes

Human Mutation

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 391-401

  Audenaert, Dominique ^a   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^a   De Jonghe, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Febrile seizures; GABRD; GABRG; GABRG2; Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus; IMPA2; Ion channels; Linkage; SCN1A; SCN1B; SCN2A; VLGR1

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GABRD GENE; GABRG GENE; GABRG2 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMPA2 GENE; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SCN1A GENE; SCN1B GENE; SCN2A GENE; VLGR1 GENE;

EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33646339415     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.20279     Document Type: Review

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