The state of the art in the genetic analysis of the epilepsies

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 320-328

  Greenberg, David A ^a   Pal, Deb K ^b  

^a Columbia University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BRD2; PROTEIN EFHC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EPILEPSY; ETHNICITY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE REPLICATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GABA; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 34547105807     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0049-8     Document Type: Review

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