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The new voltage gated potassium channel KCNQ5 and neonatal convulsions.
Neuroreport - 26 Jun 2000
Kananura C, Biervert C, Hechenberger M, Engels H, Steinlein O K
Abstract excerpt
In 1998, mutations in the voltage gated potassium channel gene KCNQ2 were found to be the main cause underlying the autosomal dominant inherited syndrome of benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC). In one BFNC family a mutation was found in an homologous gene, KCNQ3. We have now identified another brain-expressed member of this ion channel subfamily, KCNQ5, which maps to chromosome 6q14. On the genomic level...
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