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Genetics of the epilepsies.
Current opinion in neurology - 1 Apr 1999
Berkovic S F, Scheffer I E
Abstract excerpt
Epilepsies, like other common diseases, have complex inheritance, and molecular genetic studies in such conditions are difficult. There has been recent success in identifying the molecular basis of certain epilepsies, particularly in those syndromes with autosomal dominant inheritance. All four genes discovered to date for idiopathic epilepsies code for ion channel subunits, either ligand-gated or voltage-gated....
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