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KCNQ4, a novel potassium channel expressed in sensory outer hair cells, is mutated in dominant deafness.
Cell - 5 Feb 1999
Kubisch C, Schroeder B C, Friedrich T, Lütjohann B, El-Amraoui A, Marlin S, Petit C, Jentsch T J
Abstract excerpt
Potassium channels regulate electrical signaling and the ionic composition of biological fluids. Mutations in the three known genes of the KCNQ branch of the K+ channel gene family underlie inherited cardiac arrhythmias (in some cases associated with deafness) and neonatal epilepsy. We have now c...
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