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Evidence for a major susceptibility locus at 11q22.1-23.3 has been detected in a large Chinese family with pure grand mal epilepsy.
Neuroscience letters - 7 Aug 2003
Yang Mao Sheng, Wang Xue Feng, Qin Wei, Feng Guo Yin, He Lin
Abstract excerpt
Pure grand mal epilepsy (PGME) is a common subtype of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) with an unclear mode of inheritance. Several studies with the multiple families have provided evidence for the disorder to be linked to chromosome 8q24 and 8p. In this work, we performed an autosomal-wide scan linkage analysis using microsatellite markers in a large Chinese family with PGME and found seven markers with...
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