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ApoE epsilon4 is not associated with posictal confusion in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis.
Epilepsy research - 1 Aug 2009
Kauffman Marcelo Andrés, Pereira-de-Silva Nahuel, Consalvo Damián, Kochen Silvia
Abstract excerpt
A previous report found an association between ApoE isoforms and postictal confusion in medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We performed a molecular epidemiology study in an independent sample of 77 TLE patients. We failed to replicate the original allelic association between ApoE epsilon4 allele and postictal confusion in our population (chi(2)=1.67; d.f.=1; p=0.2). Thus, the association between...
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