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Nature Genetics 36, 842–849 (1 August 2004) | doi:10.1038/ng1393

Mutations in EFHC1 cause juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Toshimitsu Suzuki , Antonio V Delgado-Escueta , Kripamoy Aguan , Maria E Alonso , Jun Shi , Yuji Hara , Motohiro Nishida , Tomohiro Numata , Marco T Medina , Tamaki Takeuchi , Ryoji Morita , Dongsheng Bai , Subramaniam Ganesh , Yoshihisa Sugimoto , Johji Inazawa , Julia N Bailey , Adriana Ochoa , Aurelio Jara-Prado , Astrid Rasmussen , Jaime Ramos-Peek , Sergio Cordova , Francisco Rubio-Donnadieu , Yushi Inoue , Makiko Osawa , Sunao Kaneko , Hirokazu Oguni , Yasuo Mori & Kazuhiro Yamakawa

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is the most frequent cause of hereditary grand mal seizures. We previously mapped and narrowed a region associated with JME on chromosome 6p12–p11 (EJM1).