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[Molecular and genetic basis of idiopathic nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy].
Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska - 1 Jan 2000
Skorupska Elzbieta, Rózycka Agata, Trzeciak Wiesław H
Abstract excerpt
In this review current literature on autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) is presented and discussed. This disease is caused by mutations of genes coding for sub-units of neuronal acetylcholine receptor comprising sodium/potassium ion channel. To date, three types of mutations of the gene encoding alpha 4 sub-unit of acetylcholine receptor were described in multigeneration families in...
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