What causes epileptic encephalopathy in infancy?: The answer may lie in our genes

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1132-1133

  Holland, Katherine D ^a   Hallinan, Barbara E ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; MUNC18 PROTEIN; STXBP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; METABOLIC DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STXBP1 GENE; X CHROMOSOME; BRAIN DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENETICS; INFANT; MUTATION; NOTE;

BRAIN DISEASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INFANT; MUNC18 PROTEINS; MUTATION;

EID: 77957968210     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181f6bc97     Document Type: Editorial

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