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Unraveling genetic modifiers in the gria4 mouse model of absence epilepsy.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jul 2014
Frankel Wayne N, Mahaffey Connie L, McGarr Tracy C, Beyer Barbara J, Letts Verity A
Abstract excerpt
Absence epilepsy (AE) is a common type of genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE), particularly in children. AE and GGE are complex genetic diseases with few causal variants identified to date. Gria4 deficient mice provide a model of AE, one for which the common laboratory inbred strain C3H/HeJ (HeJ) harbors a natural IAP retrotransposon insertion in Gria4 that reduces its expression 8-fold. Between C3H and...
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