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New variants in the CACNA1H gene identified in childhood absence epilepsy.
Neuroscience letters - 2 Oct 2006
Liang Jianmin, Zhang Yuehua, Wang Juli, Pan Hong, Wu Husheng, Xu Keming, Liu Xiaoyan, Jiang Yuwu, Shen Yan, Wu Xiru
Abstract excerpt
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a common form of idiopathic generalized epilepsy with polygenic inheritance. In our previous studies, relatively high frequent variants in the T-type calcium channel gene, CACNA1H, were identified in the Chinese Han population, most of which are located in exons 6-12. The goal of this study was to identify additional variants in this region of the CACNA1H gene. To this end,...
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