Compound heterozygous mutations in UBA5 causing early - onset
epileptic encephalopathy in two sisters.
«We were able to identify the specific genetic change that led to
epileptic encephalopathy in 32 per cent of our subjects, which is quite remarkable,» said Michaud.
Not exact matches
The observation that loss - of - function mutations
in DENND5A causes
epileptic encephalopathy suggests that DENND5A protein controls membrane trafficking pathways critical for normal neuronal development and strengthens the argument that protein trafficking processes
in cells are critical for normal neuronal development and function.
The scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University, led by Peter McPherson, along with collaborators
in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany, and at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto, have discovered that a severe form of
epileptic encephalopathy is caused by recessive loss - of - function mutations
in the gene DENND5A.
Epileptic encephalopathy is a rare but devastating sub-form of epilepsy that results
in severe mental and physical disabilities
in children from birth.
«Taken together, our results suggest that SCN8A mutations
in people with early - infantile
epileptic encephalopathy may increase the risk of SUDEP by creating an environment
in which the heart has a higher susceptibility to arrhythmias,» explains author Chad Frasier, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan.
The discovery of CHD2 as the culprit gene
in a subset of children with
epileptic encephalopathy is a major step for us.»
We implemented a rare variant transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) to search for autosomal recessive
epileptic encephalopathy genes
in a cohort of 320 outbred patient - parent trios that were generally prescreened for rare metabolic disorders.
65/4: 00 Functional analysis of GRIN2A mutations
in childhood
epileptic encephalopathies.
66/4: 15 Hyperexcitability of neurons and cardiomyocytes
in a mouse model of SCN8A
epileptic encephalopathy.
They have found the genetic defect
in some neurologic diseases such as Border Terrier's leukoid
encephalopathy, Ridgebacks that start with twitching, and syndromic epilepsy, a neonatal epilepsy
in Standard Poodle but there had been so much pleomorphism
in epileptic dog's GWASP.