Identification of a novel idiopathic epilepsy locus in Belgian Shepherd dogs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Seppälä, Eija H ^a,b   Koskinen, Lotta L E ^a,b   Gulløv, Christina H ^c   Jokinen, Päivi ^a,b   Karlskov Mortensen, Peter ^c   Bergamasco, Luciana ^d   Baranowska Körberg, Izabella ^e   Cizinauskas, Sigitas ^f   Oberbauer, Anita M ^g   Berendt, Mette ^c   Fredholm, Merete ^c   Lohi, Hannes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f Referral Animal Neurology Hospital Aisti   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ADAM23 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BREED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; KLF7 GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOG DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84858784822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033549     Document Type: Article

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