Genetic Epidemiology of Epilepsy
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Genetic epidemiology of epilepsy.
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurologic disorders, affecting approximately 4 percent of individuals at some time in their lives (1). An inherited contribution to its etiology has been suspected for centuries, yet until recently, little progress has been made in understanding the genetic influences on susceptibility. This slow progress is owed in part to methodological problems in previous...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a017934