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Familial periodic paralysis associated with a rare KCNJ5 variant that supposed to have incomplete penetrance.
Brain & development - 1 Mar 2021
Hiraide Takuya, Fukumura Shinobu, Yamamoto Akiyo, Nakashima Mitsuko, Saitsu Hirotomo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The periodic paralyses are a group of skeletal muscle channelopathies caused by variants in several ion channel genes. Potassium Inwardly Rectifying Channel Subfamily J Member 5 (KCNJ5) encodes the G-protein-activated inwardly rectifying potassium channel 4 (Kir3.4) and the heterozygous KCNJ5 variants cause familial hyperaldosteronism and long QT syndrome (LQTS). Recent studies suggested that variants...
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