14q12 duplication including FOXG1: Is there a common age-dependent epileptic phenotype?

Brain and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 402-407

  Bertossi, Chiara ^a   Cassina, Matteo ^a   De Palma, Luca ^a   Vecchi, Marilena ^a   Rossato, Sara ^b   Toldo, Irene ^a   Donà, Marta ^a   Murgia, Alessandra ^a   Boniver, Clementina ^a   Sartori, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Pediatric Unit City Hospital of Thiene   (Italy)

Author keywords

14q12 duplication; Epileptic encephalopathy; FOXG1; Infantile spasms

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOXG1 GENE; FRONTAL BOSSING; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SCANTY HAIR; SEIZURE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE; GENETICS; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84898048423     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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