Mutations of the orexin system, a regulator of sleep arousal, are not a common cause of adnfle

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1272-1273

  Bouchardy, I ^a   Steinlein, O ^c   Combi, R ^d   Ferini Strambi, L ^e   Gambardella, A ^f   Rudolf, G ^g   Morris, M A ^a   Picard, F ^b,h  

^a Service of Genetic Medicine   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^h GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OREXIN;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT NOCTURNAL FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; NARCOLEPSY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79954588925     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31821434f0     Document Type: Article

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