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Balanced translocation in a patient with severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy disrupts the sodium channel gene SCN1A.
Epilepsia - 1 Jun 2008
Møller Rikke S, Schneider Lizette M, Hansen Christian P, Bugge Merete, Ullmann Reinhard, Tommerup Niels, Tümer Zeynep
Abstract excerpt
In a patient with severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), we identified a de novo balanced translocation, t(2;5)(q24.3,q34). The breakpoint on chromosome 2q24.3 truncated the SCN1A gene and the 5q34 breakpoint was within a highly conserved genomic region. Point mutations or microdeletions of...
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