Ion channel genes and human neurological disease: recent progress, prospects, and challenges.

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What do epilepsy, migraine headache, deafness, episodic ataxia, periodic paralysis, malignant hyperthermia, and generalized myotonia have in common? These human neurological disorders can be caused by mutations in genes for ion channels. Many of the channel diseases are "paroxysmal disorders" whose principal symptoms occur intermittently in individuals who otherwise may be healthy and active. Some of the ion...

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