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NIPA2 mutations are correlative with childhood absence epilepsy in the Han Chinese population

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Acknowledgments

We very appreciate our patients and their families for their cooperation. This report was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (grants: 2006AA02A408, 2006CB500701, 2008ZX09312-014, 2011CBA00401).

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China

    Yuwu Jiang, Yuehua Zhang, Pingping Zhang, Han Xie & Xiru Wu

  2. School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Feng Zhang

  3. Department of Neurobiology and Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, #45 Changchun Street, Beijing, 100053, China

    Piu Chan

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Y. Jiang, Y. Zhang and P. Zhang contributed equally to the report.

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Jiang, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, P. et al. NIPA2 mutations are correlative with childhood absence epilepsy in the Han Chinese population. Hum Genet 133, 675–676 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-014-1428-2

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