Genetic testing in epilepsy: What should you be doing?

Epilepsy Currents

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 107-111

  Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CADHERIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; PHOSPHOLIPASE C BETA1; PROTOCADHERIN 19; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARX GENE; AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CDKL5 GENE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DYSKINESIA; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY LIMITED TO FEMALES WITH MENTAL RETARDATION; EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; KETOGENIC DIET; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MISSENSE MUTATION; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCN1A GENE; SEIZURE; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLC25A22 GENE; SLC2A1 GENE; SPTAN1 GENE; STXBP1 GENE; SYNDROME; VACCINATION; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 84858282800     PISSN: 15357597     EISSN: 15357511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5698/1535-7511-11.4.107     Document Type: Review

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