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N Pineda-Trujillo1, J Carrizosa, W Cornejo
1Grupo de Genetica Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin-Colombia; The Galton Laboratory, University College London, UK.
Abstract:
Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is an inherited epileptic syndrome with a marked clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Here we report the molecular characterization of a large pedigree with a severe clinical form of GEFS+. Genetic linkage analysis implied the involvement of the FEB3 in the disease phenotype of this family (parametric two-point lod-score of 2.2). Sequencing of the SCN1A gene revealed a novel aspartic acid for glycine substitution at position 1742 of this sodium channel subunit. The amino-acid replacement lies in the pore-forming region of domain IV of SCN1A. Our observations are consistent with the genotype-phenotype correlation studies suggesting that mutations in the pore-forming loop of SCN1A can lead to a clinically more severe epileptic syndrome.
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