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A new locus for generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus maps to chromosome 2.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2000
Lopes-Cendes I, Scheffer I E, Berkovic S F, Rousseau M, Andermann E, Rouleau G A
Abstract excerpt
Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is a recently recognized but relatively common form of inherited childhood-onset epilepsy with heterogeneous epilepsy phenotypes. We genotyped 41 family members, including 21 affected individuals, to localize the gene causing epilepsy in a large family segregating an autosomal dominant form of GEFS+. A genomewide search examining 197 markers identified...
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