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SUBMITTER: Berrin T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4765430 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berrin Tuğrul T Hikmet Yılmaz Y Gülşen Vatandaş V Ferda Bozyiğit B Erdal Balcan B Ece Onur O
African health sciences 20151201 4
<h4>Background</h4>Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) is an epilepsy form without an underlying brain lesion or neurological indication or symptom. Recent investigations on the genetic origins of IGE and its subtypes report that certain mutations of various ion and non-ion channels genes in the central nervous system may be associated with IGE.<h4>Purpose</h4>In this study we evaluated the relation between IGE and S430Y polymorphism in EFHC2 gene in a Turkish population.<h4>Material/methods</ ...[more]