Progress in searching for the febrile seizure susceptibility genes.

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Febrile seizures (FS) represent the most common form of childhood seizures. They affect 2-5% of infants in the Caucasian population and are even more common in the Japanese population, affecting 6-9% of infants. Some familial FS are associated with a wide variety of afebrile seizures. Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is a familial epilepsy syndrome with a spectrum of phenotypes including...

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