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Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy: genetic heterogeneity and allelism with ADCME.
Neurology - 22 Apr 2003
de Falco F A, Striano P, de Falco A, Striano S, Santangelo R, Perretti A, Balbi P, Cecconi M, Zara F
Abstract excerpt
Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) has been mapped to chromosome 8q24; however, genetic heterogeneity has been recently suggested. The authors report a clinical and electrophysiologic study of two Italian BAFME families showing linkage to chromosome 2p11.1-q12.2. Their report supports the evidence of non-Japanese families with BAFME and suggests a possible allelism with the recently described...
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