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A new locus for autosomal dominant generalized epilepsy associated with mild mental retardation on chromosome 3p.
Epilepsia - 1 May 2011
Blair Marcia A, Abou-Khalil Bassel, Crunk Amy, Haines Jonathan L, Hedera Peter
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PURPOSE: Generalized epilepsies are clinically and genetically heterogeneous syndromes. Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), which has a strong genetic background, is not associated with any additional clinical features, such as mental retardation (MR). Herein we report results of linkage analysis in a large family with autosomal dominant (AD) generalized epilepsy associated with MR. METHODS: We identified a...
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