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Pathogenic mechanism of recurrent mutations of <scp><i>SCN8A</i></scp> in epileptic encephalopathy
21 Dec 2015
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OBJECTIVE: The early infantile epileptic encephalopathy type 13 (EIEE13, OMIM #614558) results from de novo missense mutations of SCN8A encoding the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.6. More than 20% of patients have recurrent mutations in residues Arg1617 or Arg1872. Our goal was to determine the functional effects of these mutations on channel properties. METHODS: Clinical exome sequencing was carried out on...
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