Identification of a novel locus for febrile seizures and epilepsy on chromosome 21q22

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1622-1628

  Hedera, Peter ^a,b   Ma, Shaochun ^a   Blair, Marcia A ^a   Taylor, Kelly A ^b   Hamati, Aline ^c   Bradford, Yuki ^b   Abou Khalil, Bassel ^a   Haines, Jonathan L ^b,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome 21; Epilepsy; Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DNA DETERMINATION; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 33749684849     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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