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Possible association between childhood absence epilepsy and the gene encoding GABRB3.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Oct 1999
Feucht M, Fuchs K, Pichlbauer E, Hornik K, Scharfetter J, Goessler R, Füreder T, Cvetkovic N, Sieghart W, Kasper S, Aschauer H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) is considered to have a predominantly, perhaps exclusively, genetic background. To date, genes responsible for susceptibility to CAE have not been identified. The object of the present study was to test association between CAE and the genes encoding the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type-A receptor subunits alpha 5 (GABRA5) and beta 3 (GABRB3) located on the long arm...
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