Idiopathic epilepsy with generalized tonic clonic seizures in Antioquia, Colombia: Is the joint Amerindian and Negroid racial admixture the cause of its high prevalence?

ABSTRACT: Most Colombian populations stem from the admixture of Caucasians, Amerindians and Negroids. In the world, these two latter ethnical groups show a significantly higher prevalence of epilepsy than the former one. We tested the hypothesis that the high prevalence of idiopathic epilepsy with g...

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Autores:

Jiménez Ramírez, Iván
Arcos Burgos, Óscar Mauricio
Blanco, Rafael
Valenzuela, Carlos Y.
Sánchez, J.L.
Uribe, C.S.
Jiménez, M.E.
Zuluaga, L.
Mora, O.
López, G.
Isaza, R.

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

1996

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/44365

Acceso en línea:

https://hdl.handle.net/10495/44365

Palabra clave:

Población Negra - genética
Black People - genetics
Colombia - epidemiología
Colombia - epidemiology
Epilepsia - epidemiología
Epilepsy - epidemiology
Indígenas Sudamericanos - genética
Indians, South American - genetics
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D044383
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003105
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004827
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007199

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openAccess

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/