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Characterization of seizure susceptibility in Pcdh19 mice.
Epilepsia - 1 Oct 2020
Rakotomamonjy Jennifer, Sabetfakhri Niki P, McDermott Sean L, Guemez-Gamboa Alicia
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: PCDH19-related epilepsy is characterized by a distinctive pattern of X-linked inheritance, where heterozygous females exhibit seizures and hemizygous males are asymptomatic. A cellular interference mechanism resulting from the presence of both wild-type and mutant PCDH19 neurons in heterozygous patients or mosaic carriers of PCDH19 variants has been hypothesized. We aim to investigate seizure...
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