New variants in the CACNA1H gene identified in childhood absence epilepsy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 406, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 27-32

  Liang, Jianmin ^a   Zhang, Yuehua ^a   Wang, Juli ^a   Pan, Hong ^a   Wu, Husheng ^b   Xu, Keming ^c   Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a   Shen, Yan ^d   Wu, Xiru ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

CACNA1H; Childhood absence epilepsy; Chinese; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Variation

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CACNA1H GENE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERMUTATION TEST; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSMISSION DISEQUILIBRIUM TEST;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33748799993     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.06.073     Document Type: Article

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