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Genetics and epilepsy.
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience - 1 Jan 2008
Steinlein Ortrud K
Abstract excerpt
The term "epilepsy" describes a heterogeneous group of disorders, most of them caused by interactions between several or even many genes and environmental factors. Much rarer are the genetic epilepsies that are due to single-gene mutations or defined structural chromosomal aberrations, such as microdeletions. The discovery of several of the genes underlying these rare genetic epilepsies has already considerably...
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