Familial migraine with vertigo: no mutations found in CACNA1A.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980901)79:2<148::aid-ajmg11>3.0.co;2-j

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Familial migraine with vertigo: no mutations found in CACNA1A.

American journal of medical genetics - 1 Sept 1998

Kim J S, Yue Q, Jen J C, Nelson S F, Baloh R W

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We searched for mutations in the voltage-gated calcium channel gene, CACNA1A, in nine propositi of families with migraine headaches and episodic vertigo inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. All 47 exons and flanking introns in CACNA1A were subjected to single-strand conformation polymorphi...

Topics

Adult
Calcium Channels
Child
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Migraine Disorders
Mutation
Pedigree
Polymorphism, Genetic
Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
Trinucleotide Repeats
Vertigo

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