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Malic enzyme 2 may underlie susceptibility to adolescent-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2005
Greenberg David A, Cayanis Eftihia, Strug Lisa, Marathe Sudhir, Durner Martina, Pal Deb K, Alvin Gabriele B, Klotz Irene, Dicker Elisa, Shinnar Shlomo, Bromfield Edward B, Resor Stanley, Cohen Jeffrey, Moshe Solomon L, Harden Cynthia, Kang Harriet
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) is a class of genetically determined, phenotypically related epilepsy syndromes. Linkage analysis identified a chromosome 18 locus predisposing to a number of adolescent-onset IGEs. We report a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) association analysis of the region around the marker locus with the high LOD score. This analysis, which used both case-control and family-based...
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