Familial partial epilepsy with variable foci: Clinical features and linkage to chromosome 22q12

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1054-1060

  Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b,i   Serratosa, Jose M ^c   Phillips, Hilary A ^d   Xiong, Lan ^e   Andermann, Eva ^b   Díaz Otero, Fernando ^e   Gómez Garre, Pilar ^c   Martín, Mercedes ^f   Fernández Bullido, Yolanda ^f   Andermann, Frederick ^b   Lopes Cendes, Iscia ^b   Dubeau, Francois ^b   Desbiens, Richard ^g   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a   Wallace, Robyn H ^d,h   Mulley, John C ^d,h   Pandolfo, Massimo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^d WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^g LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

ⁱ AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Genetics; Linkage; Partial epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CANADA; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SPAIN;

EID: 4544255725     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.30502.x     Document Type: Article

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