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Prediction by modeling that epilepsy may be caused by very small functional changes in ion channels.
Archives of neurology - 1 Oct 2009
Thomas Evan A, Reid Christopher A, Berkovic Samuel F, Petrou Steven
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OBJECTIVE: To use computer simulation to perform a "genetic sensitivity" analysis to predict which genes are best positioned to increase risk as well as to predict functionally how variants in these genes might increase network excitability. METHODS: A previously published, biophysically realistic model of the dentate gyrus that included mossy fiber sprouting between granule cells was used to model putative...
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