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Chloride channel myotonia: exon 8 hot-spot for dominant-negative interactions.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Dec 2007
Fialho D, Schorge S, Pucovska U, Davies N P, Labrum R, Haworth A, Stanley E, Sud R, Wakeling W, Davis M B, Kullmann D M, Hanna M G
Abstract excerpt
Myotonia congenita (MC) is the commonest genetic skeletal muscle ion channelopathy. It is caused by mutations in CLCN1 on chromosome 7q35, which alter the function of the major skeletal muscle voltage-gated chloride channel. Dominant and recessive forms of the disease exist. We have undertaken a clinical, genetic and molecular expression study based upon a large cohort of over 300 UK patients. In an initial...
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