New evidence for a genetic link between epilepsy and migraine

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 1969-1970

  Winawer, Melodie ^a  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; PROTEIN SHC;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHANNELOPATHY; CHROMOSOME 9Q; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL HEMIPLEGIC MIGRAINE; FAMILY HISTORY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MELAS SYNDROME; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELATIVE; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MIGRAINE DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 34249910943     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000267702.67829.16     Document Type: Editorial

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