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Suggestion of a major gene for familial febrile convulsions mapping to 8q13-21.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1996
Wallace R H, Berkovic S F, Howell R A, Sutherland G R, Mulley J C
Abstract excerpt
Febrile convulsions affect 2 to 5% of all children under the age of 5 years. These convulsions probably have a variety of causes, but a genetic component has long been recognised. A large and remarkable family is described in which febrile convulsions appear to result from autosomal dominant inheritance at a single major locus. A gene for febrile convulsions was excluded from regions of previously mapped epilepsy...
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