Refractory neonatal epilepsy with a de novo duplication of chromosome 2q24.2q24.3

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Yamamoto, Toshiyuki ^b   Shimojima, Keiko ^b   Honda, Yoshinobu ^c   Abe, Shinpei ^a   Ikeno, Mitsuru ^a   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

2q duplication; Array comparative genomic hybridization; Neonatal epilepsy; Voltage gated sodium channels

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, 1-3; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; KARYOTYPING; SEIZURES; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 79959945227     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03139.x     Document Type: Article

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