ApoE ε4 is not associated with posictal confusion in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 85, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 311-313

  Kauffman, Marcelo Andrés ^a,b   Pereira de Silva, Nahuel ^c   Consalvo, Damián ^c   Kochen, Silvia ^c  

^a Centro de Epilepsia   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Nacional Professor Dr Alejandro Posadas Servicio de Neurologia   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ApoE; Gene; Polymorphism; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ISOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ARGENTINA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE;

APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ARGENTINA; CONFUSION; DNA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 67650577176     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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