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A TASK3 channel (KCNK9) mutation in a genetic model of absence epilepsy.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Jan 2005
Holter Jethro, Carter David, Leresche Nathalie, Crunelli Vincenzo, Vincent Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Childhood absence epilepsy is an idiopathic, generalized, nonconvulsive epilepsy with a multifactorial genetic etiology. The KCNK9 gene coding for the TASK3 (Twik-like acid-sensitive K</U)+) channel is present on chromosome 8 at position 8q24, a locus that has shown positive linkage to the human absence epilepsy phenotype. Sequencing of the KCNK9 gene in the genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS),...
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