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Patients with a sodium channel alpha 1 gene mutation show wide phenotypic variation.
Epilepsy research - 1 Jun 2007
Osaka Hitoshi, Ogiwara Ikuo, Mazaki Emi, Okamura Nami, Yamashita Sumimasa, Iai Mizue, Yamada Michiko, Kurosawa Kenji, Iwamoto Hiroko, Yasui-Furukori Norio, Kaneko Sunao, Fujiwara Tateki, Inoue Yushi, Yamakawa Kazuhiro
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the roles of mutations in voltage-gated sodium channel alpha 1 subunit gene (SCN1A) in epilepsies and psychiatric disorders. The SCN1A gene was screened for mutations in three unrelated Japanese families with generalized epilepsy with febrile seizure plus (GEFS+), febrile seizure with myoclonic seizures, or intractable childhood epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures (ICEGTC). In the...
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