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Nature Medicine  2, 516 - 518 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0596-516

Shaking down new epilepsy genes

Kristina M. Allen & Christopher Walsh

Beth Israle Hospital, Department of Neurology, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Room 836, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

The neural function of cystatin B, recently implicated in EPM1, is unclear but may lead to new insights into the mechanisms of epilepsy.

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