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Childhood absence epilepsy in 8q24: refinement of candidate region and construction of physical map.
Genomics - 15 Sept 2000
Sugimoto Y, Morita R, Amano K, Fong C Y, Shah P U, Castroviejo I P, Khan S, Delgado-Escueta A V, Yamakawa K
Abstract excerpt
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), one of the common idiopathic generalized epilepsies, accounts for 8 to 15% of all childhood epilepsies. Inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, frequent absence attacks start in early or midchildhood and disappear by 30 years of age or may persist through life. Recently, we mapped the locus for CAE persisting with tonic-clonic seizures to chromosome 8q24 (ECA1) by genetic...
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