Chromosomal mapping of genetic loci controlling absence epilepsy phenotypes in the WAG/Rij rat

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 908-915

  Gauguier, Dominique ^a   Van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^b   Thérèse Bihoreau, Marie ^a   Wilder, Steven P ^a   Godfrey, Richard F ^a   Vossen, Jo ^b   Coenen, Anton ^b   Cox, Roger D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Genetics; QTL; Quantitative trait locus; Spike wave discharges; SWDs; WAG Rij rat

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INBRED STRAIN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 4043160689     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.13104.x     Document Type: Article

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