Turning on the heat: The search for febrile seizure genes

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1770-1771

  Winawer, Melodie ^a,b   Hesdorffer, Dale ^a,b  

^a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; INOSITOL 1 PHOSPHATASE; SODIUM CHANNEL;

CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 18; EDITORIAL; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWINS;

EID: 8844272509     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000144285.17019.35     Document Type: Editorial

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