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Refinement of the 2p11.1-q12.2 locus responsible for cortical tremor associated with epilepsy and exclusion of candidate genes

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Acknowledgement

We thank the family members for their participation, the IFR70 cell and DNA bank for DNA extraction, and the Centre National de Génotypage (CNG, Evry) for genomewide scan. This work was supported financially by INSERM, AP-HP, the Pierre et Marie Curie University, and the CNG. C.SM. is a recipient of a fellowship from the French Ministry of Education and Research. The experiments comply with the current French laws.

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  1. INSERM, UMR 679, GH Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    Cécile Saint-Martin, Delphine Bouteiller, Giovanni Stevanin, Cyprian Popescu, Merle Ruberg, Stéphanie Baulac, Eric LeGuern & Christel Depienne

  2. Federative Institute for Neuroscience Research (IFR70), Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

    Cécile Saint-Martin, Delphine Bouteiller, Giovanni Stevanin, Cyprian Popescu, Merle Ruberg, Stéphanie Baulac, Eric LeGuern & Christel Depienne

  3. Department of Genetics and Cytogenetics, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

    Giovanni Stevanin, Eric LeGuern & Christel Depienne

  4. Centre National du Génotypage, Evry, France

    Céline Charon

  5. UMR S679, Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris 6 University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

    Eric LeGuern & Christel Depienne

  6. Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Caremeau, Nîmes, France

    Pierre Labauge

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Saint-Martin, C., Bouteiller, D., Stevanin, G. et al. Refinement of the 2p11.1-q12.2 locus responsible for cortical tremor associated with epilepsy and exclusion of candidate genes. Neurogenetics 9, 69–71 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10048-007-0107-z

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