Two faces of the same coin: Benign familial infantile seizures and paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia caused by PRRT2 mutations

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 668-670

  Schmidt, Alexander ^a   Kumar, Kishore R ^a,f   Redyk, Katharina ^a,b   Grünewald, Anne ^a   Leben, Matthias ^b   Münchau, Alexander ^c   Sue, Carolyn M ^f   Hagenah, Johann ^a   Hartmann, Hans ^d   Lohmann, Katja ^a   Christen, Hans Jürgen ^e   Klein, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b Children'SHospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^e Children's Hospital Auf der Bult   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BENIGN FAMILIAL INFANTILE SEIZURE; CHROMOSOME 16; DYSKINESIA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PAROXYSMAL KINESIGENIC DYSKINESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLINE RICH TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 2 GENE; SEIZURE;

DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, BENIGN NEONATAL; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS;

EID: 84860906296     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.187     Document Type: Article

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