Progress from genome-wide association studies and copy number variant studies in epilepsy

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 158-167

  Leu, Costin ^a   Coppola, Antonietta ^b   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

copy number variants; epilepsy; genome wide association studies; whole exome sequencing; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; CHROMOSOME; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; GENE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; EPILEPSY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84960467073     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000296     Document Type: Review

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