What's next after the exciting discovery and reassuring replications of genome-wide association studies of restless legs syndrome?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 733-734

  Xiong, Lan ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BTBD9 GENE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 2P; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 9P; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAP2K5 GENE; MEIS1 GENE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTPRD GENE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKOR1 GENE;

FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MAP KINASE KINASE 5; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 80052970927     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2011.08.001     Document Type: Editorial

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