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Schizophrenia, psychotic illness and other psychiatric symptoms in families with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy caused by different mutations.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jun 2003
Magnusson Andres, Stordal Eystein, Brodtkorb Eylert, Steinlein Ortrud
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OBJECTIVES: Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) is characterized by a strong family history of epileptic seizures, which predominantly occur during sleep. ADNFLE has been associated with mutations in two genes coding for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (CHRNA4 and CHRNB2). Thus far, three different mutations have been detected in the CHRNA4 gene, and two in the CHRNB2 gene. The aim of...
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