A novel GABRG2 mutation associated with febrile seizures

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 687-690

  Audenaert, D ^a   Schwartz, E ^b   Claeys, K G ^a,d   Claes, L ^a   Deprez, L ^a   Suls, A ^a   Van Dyck, T ^a   Lagae, L ^e   Van Broeckhoven, C ^a   Macdonald, R L ^c   De Jonghe, P ^a,d,f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ABSENCE; ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE;

BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 33747707462     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000230145.73496.a2     Document Type: Article

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