Article
Exclusion of linkage of genetic focal sharp waves to the HLA region on chromosome 6p in families with benign partial epilepsy with centrotemporal sharp waves.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Aug 1993
Whitehouse W, Diebold U, Rees M, Parker K, Doose H, Gardiner R M
Abstract excerpt
Benign partial epilepsy with centrotemporal sharp waves (benign rolandic epilepsy, BRE) is a common form of idiopathic, localisation-related epilepsy of childhood. The characteristic age-dependent focal sharp wave (fsw) found on the EEG in this disorder segregates as an autosomal dominant trait i...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Alleles
- Cerebral Cortex
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Disorders
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
- DNA Probes
- Epilepsies, Partial
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Linkage
- HLA Antigens
- HLA-DQ Antigens