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Association of HLA class II alleles in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy compared with patients with other forms of adolescent-onset generalized epilepsy.
Neurology - 1 Sept 1996
Greenberg D A, Durner M, Shinnar S, Resor S, Rosenbaum D, Klotz I, Dicker E, Keddache M, Zhou G, Yang X, Altstiel L
Abstract excerpt
Reports have suggested an association of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) with an HLA-DR allele. We examined the HLA-DR and DQ frequencies in two populations of epilepsy patients: (1) JME patients and (2) patients with other forms of adolescent-onset, idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). We di...
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