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[Genetic anticipation in idiopathic epilepsies].
Revista de neurologia - 1 Jan 2000
Arcos-Burgos M, Palacio L G, Sánchez J L, Jiménez M E, Mora O, Zuluaga L, Uribe C S, López-Gartner G, Jiménez I
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: In extended and multigenerational pedigrees, the idiopathic epilepsy phenotype shows an extreme variability. OBJECTIVE: The range of idiopathic epilepsy onset age in multigenerational pedigrees was studied in order to determine if genetic anticipation play a role in the heredity of Idiopathic Epilepsies. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We compare the seizures onset age among relative-pairs of...
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