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Sodium channel dysfunction in intractable childhood epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
The Journal of physiology - 1 Dec 2005
Rhodes Thomas H, Vanoye Carlos G, Ohmori Iori, Ogiwara Ikuo, Yamakawa Kazuhiro, George Alfred L
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the brain voltage-gated sodium channel alpha(1) subunit (Na(V)1.1), are associated with genetic forms of epilepsy, including generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+ type 2), severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI) and related conditions. Several missense SCN1A mutations have been identified in probands affected by the syndrome of intractable childhood...
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