We examined the inheritance of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). We looked at both the trait of "epilepsy" and the trait of "epilepsy-plus-EEG abnormalities," since EEG abnormalities are frequently found in the clinically unaffected sibs of JME patients. We tested several modes of inheritance inclu
Clinical and genetic analysis of a large pedigree with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
✍ Scribed by José M. Serratosa; Dr. Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta; Marco T. Medina; Quanwei Zhang; Reza Iranmanesh; Robert S. Sparkes
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 891 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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