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Absence of linkage to 8q23.3-q24.1 and 2p11.1-q12.2 in a new BAFME pedigree in China: indication of a third locus for BAFME.
Epilepsy research - 1 Jul 2005
Deng Fei-Yan, Gong Jian, Zhang Yun-Ci, Wang Kang, Xiao Su-Mei, Li Yuan-Neng, Lei Shu-Feng, Chen Xiang-Ding, Xiao Bo, Deng Hong-Wen
Abstract excerpt
Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME) were mapped on chromosome 8q24 and 8q23.3-q24.1 in Japanese pedigrees and mapped on 2p11.1-2q12.2 in European pedigrees, respectively. Recently, we recruited a large BAFME pedigree in China. After genotyping 11 microsatellite markers covering the two previously identified chromosome regions, we performed linkage analyses. However, evidence of negative linkage was...
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