Familial generalized epilepsy in Bulgarian Roma

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 300-306

  Tournev, Ivailo ^a,b   Royer, Barbara ^c   Szepetowski, Pierre ^c   Guergueltcheva, Velina ^a,b   Radionova, Melania ^a   Velizarova, Reana ^a,b   Yonova, Mila ^d   Lathrop, Mark ^e   Jamali, Sarah ^c   Petkov, Radoslav ^a   Raycheva, Margarita ^a   Genton, Pierre ^f  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b Ethnic Minorities Health Problems Foundation   (Bulgaria)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d Psychiatric Dispensary   (Bulgaria)

^e CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

^f CENTRE SAINT PAUL   (France)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Genetics; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Roma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BULGARIA; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GIPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BULGARIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FAMILY; FEMALE; GYPSIES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 35348971065     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0122     Document Type: Article

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