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Molecular analysis of the A322D mutation in the GABA receptor alpha-subunit causing juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
The European journal of neuroscience - 1 Jul 2005
Krampfl Klaus, Maljevic Snezana, Cossette Patrick, Ziegler Elke, Rouleau Guy A, Lerche Holger, Bufler Johannes
Abstract excerpt
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) belongs to the most common forms of hereditary epilepsy, the idiopathic generalized epilepsies. Although the mode of inheritance is usually complex, mutations in single genes have been shown to cause the disease in some families with autosomal dominant inheritance. The first mutation in a multigeneration JME family has been recently found in the alpha1-subunit of the GABAA...
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