Article
Benign familial neonatal convulsions: evidence for clinical and genetic heterogeneity.
Annals of neurology - 1 May 1991
Ryan S G, Wiznitzer M, Hollman C, Torres M C, Szekeresova M, Schneider S
Abstract excerpt
The gene for autosomal dominant "benign" familial neonatal convulsions, a transient, primary epilepsy of infancy, has recently been assigned to chromosome 20q. To determine whether this disorder is genetically heterogeneous, we performed linkage analysis in two previously unreported pedigrees with benign familial neonatal convulsions in which clinical heterogeneity was evident. There were 14 affected persons in...
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