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Idiopathic mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a syndrome with complex inheritance?

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    Juan Gomez-Alonso, D. Muñoz-Garcia & M. Aguado

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Gomez-Alonso, J., Muñoz-Garcia, D. & Aguado, M. Idiopathic mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a syndrome with complex inheritance?. J Neurol 256, 2104–2105 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-009-5313-1

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