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A piece in the puzzle: an ion channel candidate gene for schizophrenia.
Molecular medicine today - 1 Dec 1998
Gargus J J, Fantino E, Gutman G A
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in ion channels have been found to cause a variety of mendelian genetic diseases, and polyglutamine repeat expansion is a newly recognized pathogenic mechanism that causes several rare, genetic, late-onset neurological syndromes. Polymorphic polyglutamine tracts are present in a recently described human, calcium-activated potassium channel, KCNN3 (also known as hKCa3), and alleles of this gene that...
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