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A novel neuropsychiatric phenotype of KCNJ2 mutation in one Taiwanese family with Andersen-Tawil syndrome.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2010
Chan Hoi-Fong, Chen Meng-Ling, Su Jen-Jen, Ko Li-Chin, Lin Chin-Hsien, Wu Ruey-Meei
Abstract excerpt
Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS) is a rare familial potassium channelopathy characterized by the clinical triad of periodic paralysis, cardiac arrhythmia and dysmorphic facial/skeletal features. The majority of ATS patients are caused by mutations of the KCNJ2 gene, which encodes the inward-rectifying potassium channel protein Kir2.1. However, the effects of the KCNJ2 mutation on the central nervous system are...
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