Case-control study and transmission/disequilibrium tests of the genes encoding GABRA5 and GABRA3 in a Chinese population affected by childhood absence epilepsy

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1497-1501

  Lü, Jian Jun ^a   Zhang, Yue Hua ^a   Pan, Hong ^a   Chen, Yu Cai ^a   Liu, Xiao Yan ^a   Jiang, Yu Wu ^a   Bao, Xin Hua ^a   Shen, Yan ^b,c   Wu, Hu Sheng ^d   Xu, Ke Ming ^e   Wu, Xi Ru ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

Author keywords

Case control study; Childhood absencce epilepsy; Microsatellite DNA; Transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ADENINE; CYTOSINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 8844256125     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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