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Case-control study and transmission/disequilibrium tests of the genes encoding GABRA5 and GABRB3 in a Chinese population affected by childhood absence epilepsy.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Oct 2004
Lü Jian-jun, Zhang Yue-hua, Pan Hong, Chen Yu-cai, Liu Xiao-yan, Jiang Yu-wu, Bao Xin-hua, Shen Yan, Wu Hu-sheng, Xu Ke-ming, Wu Xi-ru
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BACKGROUND: Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is one of the most frequently recognized syndromes among the idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs). CAE is considered to be a genetic disease, with a possible polygenic inheritance pattern. The genes responsible for CAE have not been identified yet. The object of this study was to investigate whether or not CAE is associated with the gene encoding the...
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