Genetic defect found to cause severe epilepsy and mental retardation
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 14:03
in Health & Medicine
A research team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel has detected a genetic mutation resulting in a progressive disease of severe mental retardation and epilepsy beginning at infancy. The research was just published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.