Genetics of restless legs syndrome: Mendelian, complex, and everything in between

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-215

  Schormair, Barbara ^a,b   Winkelmann, Juliane ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex disease; Genetic association study; Genetics; Linkage study; Restless legs syndrome

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 79958049784     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2011.04.006     Document Type: Review

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