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Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes and the focal sharp wave trait is not linked to the fragile X region.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Aug 1993
Rees M, Diebold U, Parker K, Doose H, Gardiner R M, Whitehouse W P
Abstract excerpt
Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECS, benign rolandic epilepsy) is a common form of genetically determined localisation-related epilepsy of childhood. The characteristic age-dependent focal sharp wave (fsw) found on the EEG in this disorder segregates as a dominant trait in families with probands with BCECS. Seizures occur in a significant proportion of individuals with the fragile X...
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