Article
[Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in chromosome 6p12: clinical and genetic advances].
Revista de neurologia - 1 Jan 2000
Delgado-Escueta A V, Bai D, Bailey J, Medina M T, Alonso M E, Morita R, Suzuki T, Ganesh S, Sugimoto T, Yamakawa K, Ochoa A, Jara-Prado A, Rasmussen A, Ramos-Peek M, Cordova S, Rubio-Donnadieu F
Abstract excerpt
Amongst idiopathic generalized epilepsies, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is the most common, accounting for 12% to 30% of all epilepsies in the Western world. Classic JME consists of awakening myoclonias, grand mal convulsions and EEG 4 to 6 Hz polyspike waves that appear in adolescence. Probands and affected family members do not have pyknoleptic 3Hz spike and wave absences. However, in 10 to 30% of...
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