Article
Preponderance of female sex in the transmission of seizure liability in idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
Epilepsy research - 1 Feb 2001
Doose H, Neubauer B A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: the predominance of the female sex in the transmission of seizure liability is a known phenomenon. However, all hitherto published genetic studies are based on reported seizure frequencies only. The aim of this investigation was to reexamine this problem by combining clinical and family EEG data. METHODS: families of 82 index cases fulfilling the following core criteria were ascertained; (1) definite...
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