Beyond the single nucleotide variant in epilepsy genetics

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 490-491

  Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a   Mefford, Heather C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL MICROARRAY; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84908086887     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.146     Document Type: Short Survey

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