Severe epilepsy resulting from genetic interaction between Scn2a and Kcnq2

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1043-1048

  Kearney, Jennifer A ^a,e   Yang, Yan ^b   Beyer, Barbara ^b   Bergren, Sarah K ^a   Claes, Lieve ^c   DeJonghe, Peter ^c,d   Frankel, Wayne N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e Department of Human Genetics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ2; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL SCN2A;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LETHALITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; KCNQ2 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644773647     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl019     Document Type: Article

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