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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 508308, 4 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/508308
Research Article

UBR5 Gene Mutation Is Associated with Familial Adult Myoclonic Epilepsy in a Japanese Family

Takeo Kato,1 Gen Tamiya,2 Shingo Koyama,1 Tomohiro Nakamura,2 Satoshi Makino,3 Shigeki Arawaka,1 Toru Kawanami,1 and Ikuo Tooyama3

1Department of Neurology, Hematology, Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-Nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan
2Genomic Information Analysis Unit, Advanced Molecular Epidemiology Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-Nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan
3Molecular Neuroscience Research Center, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu 520-2192, Japan

Received 6 July 2012; Accepted 9 August 2012

Academic Editors: C.-Y. Hsu, D. Mathieu, and G. Meco

Copyright © 2012 Takeo Kato et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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