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Familial occipitotemporal lobe epilepsy and migraine with visual aura: linkage to chromosome 9q.
Neurology - 5 Jun 2007
Deprez L, Peeters K, Van Paesschen W, Claeys K G, Claes L R F, Suls A, Audenaert D, Van Dyck T, Goossens D, Del-Favero J, De Jonghe P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To map the disease-causing locus in a large Belgian family with occipitotemporal lobe epilepsy associated with migraine with visual aura and to describe the clinical, electrophysiologic, and imaging characteristics. METHODS: DNA samples from 21 family members were obtained and an 8 cM density genome-wide scan was performed. The authors interviewed 21 individuals and performed interictal EEG in 14 and...
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