Clinical and genetic familial study of a large cohort of Italian children with idiopathic epilepsy

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-96

  Combi, Romina ^a   Grioni, Daniele ^b   Contri, Margherita ^b   Redaelli, Serena ^a   Redaelli, Francesca ^c   Bassi, Maria Teresa ^c   Barisani, Donatella ^a   Lavitrano, Maria Luisa ^a   Tredici, Giovanni ^a   Tenchini, Maria Luisa ^d   Bertolini, Mario ^a,b   Dalprà, Leda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohort; Epilepsy; Genetics; Ion channels; Mutation

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHILD; CLCN2 GENE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCN1A GENE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; COHORT EFFECT; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; SEX FACTORS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 62449121769     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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