Article
Single-Gene Determinants of Epilepsy Comorbidity.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 2 Nov 2015
Noebels Jeffrey L
Abstract excerpt
Common somatic conditions are bound to occur by chance in individuals with neurological disorders as prevalent as epilepsy, but when biological links underlying the comorbidity can be uncovered, the relationship may provide clues into the origin and mechanisms of both. The expanding list of monogenic epilepsies and their associated clinical features offer a remarkable opportunity to mine the epilepsy genome for...
Topics
- Alzheimer Disease
- Autistic Disorder
- Brain Diseases
- Cognition Disorders
- Comorbidity
- Depression
- Epilepsy
- Genes
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
