A novel genetic locus for benign familial infantile seizures maps to chromosome 1p36.12-p35.1

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 490-492

  Li, H Y ^a   Li, N ^a   Jiang, H ^a,b   Shen, L ^a,b   Guo, J F ^a   Zhang, R X ^b   Xia, K ^b   Pan, Q ^b   Zi, X H ^b   Tang, Bei Sha ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; VALPROIC ACID;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BENIGN FAMILIAL INFANTILE SEIZURE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; KARYOTYPE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FAMILY; HUMANS; PEDIGREE;

EID: 53949115035     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2008.01092.x     Document Type: Letter

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