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A splice site variant in the sodium channel gene SCN1A confers risk of febrile seizures.
Neurology - 17 Mar 2009
Schlachter K, Gruber-Sedlmayr U, Stogmann E, Lausecker M, Hotzy C, Balzar J, Schuh E, Baumgartner C, Mueller J C, Illig T, Wichmann H E, Lichtner P, Meitinger T, Strom T M, Zimprich A, Zimprich F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to investigate whether the risk of febrile seizures is influenced by a common functional polymorphism in the sodium channel gene SCN1A. This single nucleotide polymorphism (IVS5N+5 G>A, rs3812718) was shown to modify the proportion of two alternative transcripts of the channel. METHODS: We performed an exploratory case-control association analysis in 90 adult epilepsy patients with...
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