Nervous system KV7 disorders: breakdown of a subthreshold brake.

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Voltage-gated K+channels of the K(V)7 (KCNQ) family have been identified in the last 10-15 years by discovering the causative genes for three autosomal dominant diseases: cardiac arrhythmia (long QT syndrome) with or without congenital deafness (KCNQ1), a neonatal epilepsy (KCNQ2 and KCNQ3) and progressive deafness alone (KCNQ4). A fifth member of this gene family (KCNQ5) is not affected in a disease so far. Four...

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