New ideas in epilepsy genetics: Novel epilepsy genes, copy number alterations, and gene regulation

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-328

  Gurnett, Christina A ^a   Hedera, Peter ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ION CHANNEL; LITHIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EFHC1 GENE; EPILEPSY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMPA2 GENE; LEUCINE RICH GLIOMA INACTIVATED 1 GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS;

EID: 33947229268     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.3.324     Document Type: Review

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