Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: disease expression among Indian families
โ Scribed by S. Jain; M. V. Padma; A. Puri; M. C. Maheshwari
- Book ID
- 109336732
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 794 KB
- Volume
- 97
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6314
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We undertook genetic study of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) from 17 families. There was a mean of 8 children in each sibship. Siblings were affected in 8 sibships, and some families had more than 2 members affected by JME. Half-siblings and parental involvement were found in only 1
## Abstract Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a common subtype of idiopathic epilepsy accounting for 4โ11% of all epilepsies. We reported previously significant evidence of linkage between chromosome 6p12โ11 microsatellites and the clinical epilepsy and EEG traits of JME families from Belize and Los A