The quest for Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy genes

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Delgado Escueta, Antonio V ^a,b,c   Koeleman, Bobby P C ^e   Bailey, Julia N ^a,b,d   Medina, Marco T ^b,f   Durón, Reyna M ^a,b,f  

^a VA GLAHS West Los Angeles   (United States)

^b GENESS International Consortium ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

Author keywords

Genome wide associations; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy genes; Linkage

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BETA4 SUBUNIT; CALCIUM CHANNEL SENSOR RECEPTOR; CONNEXIN 36; EF HAND CONTAINING GENE PROTEIN; GABA RECEPTOR ALPHA ONE SUBUNIT; GABA RECEPTOR DELTA SUBUNIT; MALIC ENZYME2; MYOCLONIN1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTATION; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE;

EID: 84878967733     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.06.033     Document Type: Review

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