Linkage and association analysis of CACNG3 in childhood absence epilepsy

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 463-472

  Everett, Kate V ^a   Chioza, Barry ^a   Aicardi, Jean ^b   Aschauer, Harald ^c   Brouwer, Oebele ^d   Callenbach, Petra ^d   Covanis, Athanasios ^e   Dulac, Olivier ^f   Eeg Olofsson, Orvar ^g   Feucht, Martha ^c   Friis, Mogens ^h   Goutieres, Françoise ^s   Guerrini, Renzo ⁱ   Heils, Armin ^j   Kjeldsen, Marianne ^k   Lehesjoki, Anna Elina ^l   Makoff, Andrew ^m   Nabbout, Rima ^f   Olsson, Ingrid ⁿ   Sander, Thomas ^o,p   Sirén, Auli ^q   McKeigue, Paul ^r   Robinson, Robert ^a   Taske, Nichole ^a   Rees, Michele ^a   Gardiner, Mark ^a   more..

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h HOLBÆK HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^k ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^m KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^o MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^p HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^q TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^r LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^s NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN CACNG3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT CALCIUM CHANNEL GAMMA 3; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 16P; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEIZURES;

EID: 33947634518     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201783     Document Type: Article

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