Antisense oligonucleotides modulate aberrant inclusion of poison exons in SCN1A-related Dravet syndrome

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Dravet syndrome is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy associated with pathogenic variants in SCN1A. Most disease-causing variants are located within coding regions, but recent work has shed light on the role of noncoding variants associated with a poison exon in intron 20 of SCN1A. Discovery of the SCN1A poison exon known as 20N has led to the first potential disease-modifying therapy for Dravet...

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