FAME 3: A novel form of progressive myoclonus and epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1382-1389

  Carr, J A ^a,e   Van Der Walt, P E ^a   Nakayama, J ^c   Fu, Y H ^c   Corfield, V ^b   Brink, P ^a   Ptacek, L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL ADULT MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL ADULT MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY 1 GENE; FAMILIAL ADULT MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY 2 GENE; FAMILIAL ADULT MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY 3 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; GLIOSIS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MARKER GENE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PEDIGREE; PURKINJE CELLS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34247542919     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000260063.46425.7e     Document Type: Article

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