The genetics of epilepsy
β Scribed by Gurrieri, Fiorella ;Carrozzo, Romeo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 48 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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This work was supported by grants from Interdisciplina Β¨res Zentrum fu Β¨r Klinische Forschung (A.G.), ZLB Bioplasma (AG), and the Wellcome Trust (R.O.). We are indebted to the patient whose serum we used and to R. Schedel and H. Vogel for serum acquisition.
Benign rolandic epilepsy (BRE) is considered to be a genetically determined idiopathic partial epilepsy. We studied twins with BRE and compared the concordance with a twin sample of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). All eight BRE pairs (six monozygous [MZ], two dizygous [DZ]) were discordant. M