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Nav1.1 channels with mutations of severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy display attenuated currents.
Epilepsy research - 1 May 2003
Sugawara Takashi, Tsurubuchi Yuji, Fujiwara Tateki, Mazaki-Miyazaki Emi, Nagata Keiichi, Montal Mauricio, Inoue Yushi, Yamakawa Kazuhiro
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Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (SMEI) is characterized by intractable febrile and afebrile seizures, severe mental decline, and onset during the first year of life. Nonsense, frameshift, and missense mutations of SCN1A gene encoding the voltage-gated Na(+) channel alpha-subunit type I (Na(v...
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