CHAPTER 5.5 Genetics of idiopathic epilepsy

Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue C, 1999, Pages 820-840

  Bate, Louise ^a   Gardiner, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956757554     PISSN: 09210709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-0709(99)80062-5     Document Type: Article

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