Skeletal muscle channelopathies.

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Ion channelopathies have common clinical features, recurrent patterns of mutations, and almost predictable mechanisms of pathogenesis. In skeletal muscle, disorders are associated with mutations in voltage-gated Na(+), K(+), Ca(2+), and Cl(-) channels leading to hypoexcitability, causing periodic paralysis and to hyperexcitabilty, resulting in myotonia or susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia.

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