"Blinders, phenotype, and fashionable genetic analysis": Setting the record straight for epilepsy!

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1757-1758

  Mulley, John C ^a,b,c   Heron, Sarah E ^a   Wallace, Robyn H ^d   Gecz, Jozef ^a,c   Dibbens, Leanne M ^a,c  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; ARX PROTEIN; CDKL5 PROTEIN; CHRNA2 PROTEIN; EFHC1 PROTEIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; ION CHANNEL; LGI1 PROTEIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; PCDH19 PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ3; PRICKLE1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SCARB2 PROTEIN; SCN1B PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; TBC1D24 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

EPILEPSY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 80052525650     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03054.x     Document Type: Letter

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