Evidence for a novel gene for familial febrile convulsions, FEB2, linked to chromosome 19p in an extended family from the Midwest

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-67

  Johnson, Eric W ^a,b   Dubovsky, Jan ^a,g   Rich, Stephen S ^c   O'Donovan, Cormac A ^c   Orr, Harry T ^d,e   Anderson, V Elving ^d   Gil Nagel, Antonio ^f   Ahmann, Peter ^b   Dokken, Charles G ^a,b   Schneider, Derek T ^a,b   Weber, James L ^a,b  

^a Center for Medical Genetics   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Laboratory of Electroencephalography and Video/EEG Telemetry   (United States)

^g CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6844240853     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.1.63     Document Type: Article

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