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Lack of association of childhood partial epilepsy with brain derived neurotrophic factor gene.
TheScientificWorldJournal - 1 Jan 2012
Unalp Aycan, Bora Elcin, Cankaya Tufan, Giray Bozkaya Ozlem, Ercal Derya, Ozturk Aysel, Ulgenalp Ayfer
Abstract excerpt
Brain-derived factor (BDNF) is a member of neurotrophin family and is localized and upregulated in areas implicated in epileptogenesis. Several lines of evidence make the BDNF gene a plausible candidate gene for predisposition to epilepsy. In this study, we tested that BDNF might be involved in the etiology of childhood PE. To assess whether BDNF gene C270T polimorphism could be implicated in vulnerability to PE,...
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