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Physicochemical property changes of amino acid residues that accompany missense mutations in SCN1A affect epilepsy phenotype severity.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2009
Kanai K, Yoshida S, Hirose S, Oguni H, Kuwabara S, Sawai S, Hiraga A, Fukuma G, Iwasa H, Kojima T, Kaneko S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Several different missense mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel subunit gene SCN1A have been identified in epileptic patients with benign phenotype and patients with severe phenotype. However, the reason why similar missense mutations in SCN1A result in different phenotypes has not yet been fully clarified. OBJECTIVE: To clarify the phenotype-genotype relationship in SCN1A, a meta-analysis...
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