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Familial clustering of epilepsy and behavioral disorders: evidence for a shared genetic basis.
Epilepsia - 1 Feb 2012
Hesdorffer Dale C, Caplan Rochelle, Berg Anne T
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PURPOSE: To examine whether family history of unprovoked seizures is associated with behavioral disorders in epilepsy probands, thereby supporting the hypothesis of shared underlying genetic susceptibility to these disorders. METHODS: We conducted an analysis of the 308 probands with childhood onset epilepsy from the Connecticut Study of Epilepsy with information on first-degree family history of unprovoked...
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