Genetics of the epilepsies.

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Recent molecular insights into the human idiopathic epilepsies have suggested the central role of ligand-gated and voltage-gated ion channels in their etiology. So far, genes coding for sodium and potassium channel subunits as well as a nicotinic cholinergic receptor subunit have been identified for mendelian idiopathic epilepsies. In vitro and in vivo studies of mutations demonstrate functional changes, allowing...

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