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Genetics of the febrile seizure susceptibility trait.
Brain & development - 1 Aug 1998
Kugler S L, Johnson W G
Abstract excerpt
Febrile seizures are the commonest form of convulsion, occurring in 2-5% of infants in Europe and North America and 6-9% of infants in Japan. In large families, the febrile seizure susceptibility trait is inherited by the autosomal dominant pattern with reduced penetrance. In the other families, inheritance appears to be multifactorial. Recent linkage studies provide evidence that regions of chromosomes 8 and 19...
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