Familial neonatal seizures in 36 families: Clinical and genetic features correlate with outcome

Epilepsia

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1071-1080

  Grinton, Bronwyn E ^a   Heron, Sarah E ^b   Pelekanos, James T ^a,c,d   Zuberi, Sameer M ^e   Kivity, Sara ^f   Afawi, Zaid ^g   Williams, Tristiana C ^h   Casalaz, Dan M ⁱ   Yendle, Simone ^a   Linder, Ilan ^g,j   Lev, Dorit ^g   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^j   Malone, Stephen ^k   Bassan, Haim ^l   Goldberg Stern, Hadassa ^f   Stanley, Thorsten ^m   Hayman, Michael ^n,o   Calvert, Sophie ^k   Korczyn, Amos D ^g   Shevell, Michael ^p   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a,q   Mulley, John C ^h,r,s   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^f SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^g TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁱ MERCY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

^j WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^k ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^l TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

ⁿ ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^o MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^p MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^q FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^s UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

Clinical neurology; Epilepsy; Genetics; Ion channels; Neonatal seizures

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ3; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; KCNQ2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; EPILEPSY, BENIGN NEONATAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIGREE; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY, BENIGN NEONATAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KCNQ2 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MALE; PEDIGREE; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84936846608     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.13020     Document Type: Article

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